American - Author | April 12, 1916 -
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
Beverly Cleary
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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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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
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In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.
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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 think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
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