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

Beverly Cleary

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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 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
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 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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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 she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should

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

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