If 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.
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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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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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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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