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

Beverly Cleary

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
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
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

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

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