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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

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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