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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Beverly Cleary

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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
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
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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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step

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