Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Atlee Clearyis an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful living authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of her best known characters are Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth12 April 1916
CityMcminnville, OR
CountryUnited States of America
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
I read my books aloud before they were published.