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

Beverly Cleary

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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 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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
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
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
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
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
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 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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers

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