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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

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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
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 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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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 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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