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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: April 12, 1916 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Beverly Cleary Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary Children want to do what grownups do. Beverly Cleary Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary I grew up before there were strict leash laws. Beverly Cleary I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. Beverly Cleary I read my books aloud before they were published. Beverly Cleary I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. Beverly Cleary I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Beverly Cleary I was a librarian. Beverly Cleary I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. Beverly Cleary I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. Beverly Cleary My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. Beverly Cleary One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. Beverly Cleary People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. Beverly Cleary Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary What interests me is what children go through while growing up. Beverly Cleary 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. Beverly Cleary Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary |
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