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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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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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