She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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