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

Beverly Cleary

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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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
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 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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
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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