If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write 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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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