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

Beverly Cleary

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
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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 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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years

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