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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

Beverly Cleary

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
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
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
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
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict

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