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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

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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Girl Interesting Waiting
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
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
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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.
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Book Chance Reading
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.
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Children Inspiring Mother
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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

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