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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

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
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
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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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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