Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
BEVERLY CLEARYWhat interests me is what children go through while growing up.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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