From: a24061@ducksburg.com   
      
   On 2024-04-14, Ross Clark wrote:   
      
   > Sorry, I guess it's too late for you to do this now. I am trying to   
   > catch up....   
   >   
   > It's the birthday of Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), a very popular (and   
   > long-lived!) American author of children's books.   
   >   
   > She wrote a series of books about a little girl named Ramona Quimby, and   
   > in one of them (published 1981), when Ramona is 8 years old, her teacher   
   > says to the class:   
   > "...every day after lunch we are going to sit at our desks and read   
   > silently to ourselves any book we choose in the library."   
   > And they didn't have to write a report on it!   
   > The teacher called this "Drop Everything and Read" (DEAR).   
      
   The Ramona books were hilarious.   
      
      
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