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Children want to do what grownups do.

Beverly Cleary

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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
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 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
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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

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