I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARYRamona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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 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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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