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.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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