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 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 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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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 a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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