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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

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
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
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
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 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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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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