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

Beverly Cleary

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 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
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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

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