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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 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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Book Children Want
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
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
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 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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