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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

Beverly Cleary

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
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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!
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School Ships Years
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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

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