I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf 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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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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 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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I 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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