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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

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
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
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
In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
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
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children

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