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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Beverly Cleary

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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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 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
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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable

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