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.
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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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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