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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

Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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
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
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading

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

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