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Beverly Cleary
American
Author
Born:
Apr 12
,
1916
About
Book
Books
Children
Me
Reading
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary
Will
Somebody
Year
Books
Say
Give
Only
Take
Answer
Quite
Often
Childhood
Place
Your
I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
Beverly Cleary
Internet
Know
How
Go
Works
Even
Ever
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
Great
Library
Section
Tried
Entire
Tale
Tales
Read
Reader
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tales
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
Beverly Cleary
World
Think
Changed
Children
Themselves
Much
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!
Beverly Cleary
School
Back
About
Allowance
School Years
Leaping
Sails
Years
Ships
Grammar
Grammar School
Midst
Movies
Used
Douglas
Saturday
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
Beverly Cleary
Teacher
Time
Patience
Overcome
Circle
Miserable
First
Reading
Difficulty
Though
Could
Had
First Grade
Read
Grade
Afraid
Refused
Loving
Even
Second
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
People
Say
Some
Share
True
Sure
Am
Did
Experiences
Inclined
Her
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Beverly Cleary
Sister
Only
Only Child
Sisters
Child
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.
Beverly Cleary
Best
Me
Books
Aisle
Best Friend
Various
Inspired
He
Boy
Friend
Person
Grade
Sixth
Across
Who
Sat
Appears
Lively
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
Sometimes
Burden
Problems
Books
More
More And More
Feel
Know
Children
Want
Grim
Them
Third
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
Wise
Mother
Our
Books
Had
House
She
Always
Were
Very
Grade
Level
Kept
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.
Beverly Cleary
Picture
Reading
Sit
Own
Down
Books
Only
Could
Picture Books
Aloud
Until
Read
Were
Get
Them
Twins
Chance
I read my books aloud before they were published.
Beverly Cleary
Before
Books
Aloud
Read
Were
Published
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
Beverly Cleary
People
Books
Read
Surprised
Hear
Children
Really
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
Beverly Cleary
Writing
Enjoy
Most
Fourth
Third
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
Beverly Cleary
About
Had
Wrote
Known
Childhood
Just
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
Me
Memories
Mother
College
Year
Down
Live
Angeles
Invited
Come
Come And Go
Cousin
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Go
Junior
Junior College
Lovely
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
Beverly Cleary
Hope
Writing
Out
Some
Give
Glad
Children
Them
Found
Start
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
Beverly Cleary
Love
Best
Job
Think
Extra
Others
Some
Pretty
Dresses
About
Had
Real
Doing
Were
Subject
Just
Children
Interest
Little
Wore
Really
Teachers
Teaching
Cared
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Beverly Cleary
Hope
Be Happy
Happy
Will
Books
Written
Readers
Go
Children
Lives
I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.
Beverly Cleary
Memories
Memory
People
Kind
Find
Clear
Very
Childhood
Just
Fortunate
Many
Lucky
'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
Beverly Cleary
Me
Book
Parents
Country
About
Write
Divorced
Wrote
Parts
Because
Boy
Dear
Came
Were
Been
Won
Very
Different
Asked
Different Parts
Popular
Whose
Two
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
Beverly Cleary
Music
Future
College
Husband
Daughter
Practice
Enjoy
Nights
Danced
Our
Fond
Written
Hours
Particularly
Also
Instrument
Because
Am
Were
Familiar
Cello
Listened
Many
Popular
Popular Music
Her
Saturday
Plays
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
Beverly Cleary
Library
Books
Kids
Enthusiastic
Borrow
About
Been
Very
Commercialization
Children
Literature
Them
Should
Necessarily
Buying
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