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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Beverly Cleary

I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading

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