Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary
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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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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something elsegrief perhaps or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy regret that she had not been wiser.
- Beverly Cleary