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.
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.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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