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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Beverly Cleary

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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Cousin Memories Mother
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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 you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable

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