Quotes about Beverly Cleary

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read...

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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys...

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I was a librarian.

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy...

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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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I read my books aloud before they were published.

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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level...

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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but...

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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

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I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father...

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