I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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