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.
Quotes of Beverly Cleary :
1. One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
2. My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
3. 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.
4. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
5. 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.
6. 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.
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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