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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.

Beverly Cleary

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
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
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People

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