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

Beverly Cleary

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 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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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

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