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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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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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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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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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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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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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