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.
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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 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 don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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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The 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.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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