I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
From Beverly Cleary
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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.
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.
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.
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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.
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