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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

Beverly Cleary

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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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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Book Children Want
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works

Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

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