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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Beverly Cleary

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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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 she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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 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
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
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
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
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
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
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

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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