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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary
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Beverly Cleary
Age: 104 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 12
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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McMinnville
Oregon
Beverly Atlee Cleary
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.
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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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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I was an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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