I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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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 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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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

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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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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

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We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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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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