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Beverly Cleary Quotes

«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. I feel it's important to get children to enjoy reading.»
«My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.»
«Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.»
«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.»
«I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.»
«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.»