She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
BEVERLY CLEARYI don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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