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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 don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Children Inspiring Mother
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
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 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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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 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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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

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

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