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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

In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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 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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should

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