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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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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 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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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 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
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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Book Reading Teacher
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict

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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