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Beverly Cleary

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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

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