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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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 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
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
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading 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 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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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