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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

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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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 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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School

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