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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Beverly Cleary

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
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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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 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

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