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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds 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
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
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
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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister

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