My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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