Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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