My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
"Beverly Cleary" is an American author of more than 30 books for young adults and children. One of America's most successful writers of children's literature, she has sold 91 million copies of her books worldwide. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beezus Quimby/Beatrice ("Beezus") Quimby, her sister Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse. She won the 1981 National Book Award for Young People's Literature/National Book Award for Ramona and Her Mother and the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw.
For her lifetime contributions to American literature Cleary has received the National Medal of Arts, recognition as a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children/children's librarians.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Beverly Cleary on Wikipedia.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.
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.
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.
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