I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know … - Beverly Cleary

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Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

Beverly Cleary

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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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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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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