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Beverly Cleary

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If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.


— Beverly Cleary


#librarians #spelling #humor

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #me #love

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.


— Beverly Cleary


#boys #dating #etiquette #fifteen #humiliation

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.


— Beverly Cleary


#books #grade #had #house #i

That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night.


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name


— Beverly Cleary


#fifteen #love

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.


— Beverly Cleary


#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination






About Beverly Cleary






Did you know about Beverly Cleary?

In June 2008 the two-campus K–8 school of the same neighborhood Hollyrood-Fernwood was officially renamed Beverly Cleary School. See also. Educated at colleges in California and Washington Beverly Cleary worked as a librarian before writing children's books.

Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins Ribsy Beatrice ("Beezus") Quimby her sister Ramona and Ralph S. She has won many literary awards including the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr.

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