If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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