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

Beverly Cleary

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
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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
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
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
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

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