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

Beverly Cleary

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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
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

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