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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Beverly Cleary

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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years
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
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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 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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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 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
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
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict

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