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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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 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.
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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