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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

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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

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

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