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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

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
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
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
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
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 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
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
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

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