We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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