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

Beverly Cleary

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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
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 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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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

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

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