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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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 necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
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 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 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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