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

Beverly Cleary

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
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
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
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

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