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

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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 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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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