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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
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
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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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