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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
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
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable

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