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It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Corny Every Get Jokes Lot Make Okay Old One Thing Perfectly Single Some Them Thing Understand Years You

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Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: About Adult Also Ask Because Bored Comprehend Enjoy Find Funny Joke Kids Laughing More Often Questions Seldom Something Story Understand Words

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When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Because Finding Going Interest Joke Kid Line Mean Means Out Punch Punch Line Real Some Things Thinking Two Understand Vested Vested Interest Word

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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Been Beginning Books Death Done End Gone Gone With The Wind Joke Middle Read Stories Story Thing Want Whole Wind You

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In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Better Could Found Least Peers Something Well Writing

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If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Been Hate Hates Less Little Making Most Reading School Some Talent Then Who

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These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Books Each Important Kids Loud Other Out Read Share Think Want I Think

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Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Cat Dove Finds Hers Kind Our Pet She Sheep Spot Then Thinks Turtle World

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I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: Graceful Love Sophisticated Unnecessary I Love

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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: About All Things Alphabet Books Covered Even Everything Except Had Like Makes Parts Punctuation Sentence Several Speech Things Up Word Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 1st, 1959

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