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I read my books aloud before they were published.

Beverly Cleary

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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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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Book Reading Teacher
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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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School Ships Years
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting

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