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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Beverly Cleary

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read

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