10 Quotes by Beverly Cleary about children
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Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers - and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.
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Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
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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 think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
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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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I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
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