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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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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