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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Beverly Cleary

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 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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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 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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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