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Beverly Cleary

In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher

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