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Children want to do what grownups do.

Beverly Cleary

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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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 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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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 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
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
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
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

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