Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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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 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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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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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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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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