If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
BEVERLY CLEARYWith 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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 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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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