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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Beverly Cleary

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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
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 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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
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
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes

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