All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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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 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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