I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARYI think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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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 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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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