With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
BEVERLY CLEARYQuite 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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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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 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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