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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Beverly Cleary

If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl 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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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

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