Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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 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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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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