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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Children Found Give Glad Hope Out Some Start Them Writing

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Best Cared Children Doing Dresses Extra Had Interest Job Just Little Love Others Pretty Real Really Some Subject Teachers Teaching Think Were Wore I Think

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I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Any Asked Books Boy Children Kids Know Librarian Like Particularly Time Us Were Where

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I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Changed Children Much Themselves Think World

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I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Children Funny Lived Neighborhood Sort Stories Who

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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

~Beverly Cleary

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I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Been Books Borrow Buying Children Commercialization Enthusiastic Kids Library Literature Necessarily Should Them Very

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One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.

~Beverly Lewis

Topics: Amish Back Behind Car Children Dutch Earliest Earliest Memories Family Following Legs Little Me Memories Our Out Pennsylvania Pointing Seeing Slowly Sometimes Them

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Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.

~Bill Bixby

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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Anything Buy Carry Children Consumerism First Make Never Rule You Your

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