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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 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
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
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
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
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers

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