Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
BEVERLY CLEARYOtis 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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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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 key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ 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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