Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
BEVERLY CLEARYThe humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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