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Beverly Cleary

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
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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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Care Girl People
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

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