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

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

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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grad... by Beverly Cleary

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

wise mother book

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

algebra problem mean

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

two school thinking

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

real teacher children

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little... by Beverly Cleary

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

care girl people

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really rea... by Beverly Cleary

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

book children people

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.

friendship boys book

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. by Beverly Cleary

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

bedtime here-and-there needs

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. by Beverly Cleary

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

big-sister pests bigs

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads. by Beverly Cleary

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

pads writing yellow

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. by Beverly Cleary

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

known childhood

What interests me is what children go through while growing up. by Beverly Cleary

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

growing growing-up children

Children want to do what grownups do. by Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what grownups do.

grownups want children

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

ships years school

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. Sh... by Beverly Cleary

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

mother father book

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. by Beverly Cleary

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

ballerina changed mind

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.

mother inspiring children

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.

chance reading book

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on b... by Beverly Cleary

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

growing-up book children

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire f... by Beverly Cleary

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

library tales fairy-tale