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

Beverly Cleary

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 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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 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
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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

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

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