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I read my books aloud before they were published.

Beverly Cleary

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years
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
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 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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works

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