She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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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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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 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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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