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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

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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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

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