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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Beverly Cleary

Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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 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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years

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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