Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. Beverly Cleary More Quotes by Beverly Cleary More Quotes From Beverly Cleary He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined. Beverly Cleary rummage-sales shoes different All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. [...] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake Beverly Cleary cake rose littles I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year. Beverly Cleary cousin mother memories All knowledge is valuable to a librarian. Beverly Cleary librarian valuable I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. Beverly Cleary only-child sister children 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 want book children Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night. Beverly Cleary real mother father I read my books aloud before they were published. Beverly Cleary book I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works. Beverly Cleary know-how internet goes-on 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. Beverly Cleary lonely children school 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 mother father people The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser. Beverly Cleary regret grief boys I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed. Beverly Cleary think changed children world I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book. Beverly Cleary better me girl book 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 true i-am say people I was a librarian. Beverly Cleary librarian
