I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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