Newly independent readers will enjoy laughing along and trying to guess what dreadful things Ramona might do next. Mother began Ramona, leaning out into the hall. One spring day Ramona had got lost, because she started out to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. As the Good Book Says.: Ramona the Brave opens with Beezus being humiliated by a group of boys who shout, Jesus, Beezus when they overhear Ramona calling. But annoyance and frustration are all part of the joy of having siblings and, quite often, things that seem so insufferable at the time become things that you can laugh about when you get older.ĭivided into six chapters, each of which is a complete story, life in the USA with Beezus and Ramona is both funny and excruciating. The Complete 8-Book Ramona Collection: Beezus and Ramona, Ramona and Her Father, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona Forever, Ramona t. Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks,' chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
Mostly, Ramona is noisy, destructive and deliberately awkward so it’s not really a surprise when she draws on every single page of a library book, hijacks Beezus’ art class, spoils Beezus’ birthday cake (three times!) and invites most of her nursery class to her house for a party she hasn’t told her family about.Īnyone with younger brothers or sisters will sympathise with Beezus as time after time her 4 year old sister messes up her life. She wishes that she had a good imagination, too. As Beezus and Ramona walk to the park, Beezus thinks about how people always comment on Ramona’s imagination. Quimby gives Beezus 2.50 and tells the girls to walk back to the library to pay for the damaged book. But Ramona is really annoying most of the time and only behaves if Beezus (Ramona’s version of Beatrice) gives up her own time to entertain her. This makes Beezus furious because the book was checked out on her card. Beezus sometimes feels guilty that she doesn’t love her little sister as much as she thinks she should.
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