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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

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
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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Book Helping Teacher
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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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Book Chance Reading
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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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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Book Giving Years
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

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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