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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

If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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
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
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
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

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

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