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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

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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
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
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
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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 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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