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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.

Beverly Cleary

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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Children Happy Hope Readers
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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 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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Cousin Memories Mother
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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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Girl Interesting Waiting
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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

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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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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