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

Beverly Cleary

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
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister

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