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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.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

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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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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