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Beverly Cleary
American
April 12, 1916
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.
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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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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
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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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