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

Beverly Cleary

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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 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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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