My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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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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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 should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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.
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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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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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