If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
BEVERLY CLEARYWhen 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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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 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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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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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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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