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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Beverly Cleary

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
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.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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.
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Father Mother People
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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