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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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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
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
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers

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