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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Beverly Cleary

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
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
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
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
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
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 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 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

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

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