I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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