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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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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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