I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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