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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

Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
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
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 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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