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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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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

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