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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Beverly Cleary

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
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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Book Boys Friendship
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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 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
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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Book Chance Reading
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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