Best quotes by Beverly Cleary on Children

Checkout quotes by Beverly Cleary on Children

• ‟ Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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

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• ‟ Children want to do what grownups do.

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

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• ‟ I rarely read children's books.

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

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• ‟ I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

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• ‟ I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

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• ‟ I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

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• ‟ I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

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• ‟ 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.

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