If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
BEVERLY CLEARYAll knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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 very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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