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

Beverly Cleary

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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful 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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
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
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem

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