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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 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
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
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem

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