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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 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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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