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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.

Beverly Cleary

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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

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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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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