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.
BEVERLY CLEARYChildren should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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.
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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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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