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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Beverly Cleary

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 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 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
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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