Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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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 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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