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Beverly Cleary

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
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
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 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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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 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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