My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn 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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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