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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Beverly Cleary

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
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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
The 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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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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