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

Beverly Cleary

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
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
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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

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