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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

Beverly Cleary

Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
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
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 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
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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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