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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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 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

Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

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