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Beverly Cleary

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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
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

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