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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

I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
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 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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