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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.
Beverly Cleary
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Beverly Cleary
Age: 104 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 12
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
Author
Autobiographer
Librarian
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McMinnville
Oregon
Beverly Atlee Cleary
Shoes
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Shined
Everything
Trousers
Come
Sale
Different
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Crease
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I was an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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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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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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