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

Beverly Cleary

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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 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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading 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
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 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
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 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

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