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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

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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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 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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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

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