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Beverly Cleary

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
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
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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