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BEVERLY CLEARYRamona 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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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