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

Beverly Cleary

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother

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