People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
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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.Beverly Cleary
My books take place in a very specific neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It must be the most stable neighborhood in the United States.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I was a librarian.
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