Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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.
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