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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

Beverly Cleary

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 should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
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
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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests 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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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