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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
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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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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 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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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