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

Beverly Cleary

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
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
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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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 ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
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

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