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1592 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 36 reviews
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published
September 1st 1990
(first published 1979)
by HarperTrophy
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Paperback, 224 pages
isbn
038070952X
(isbn13: 9780380709526)
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At 7 and a half, with working parents and a sister at "a difficult age," Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usual...more
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At 7 and a half, with working parents and a sister at "a difficult age," Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usually, however, she ends up behind every uproarious incident in the house. Whether she's dying herself blue, watching while her young neighbor flings Kleenex around the house, or wearing her soft new pajamas to school one day (under her clothes, of course), Ramona's life is never dull. Through it all, she is struggling for a place in her mother's hear...more
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Before there was Junie B., there was Ramona.
My daughter and I listened to this in the car on a recent road trip. It was read by Stockard Channing, who I thought did a fairly good job. Each of her characters had an identifiable "voice", but Ramona's always sounded like she had a cold.
It was interesting to me that as the book was happening, I had a vague feeling of remembering having read this before, long ago...which of course is true. Some of the material is a little dated...more
My daughter and I listened to this in the car on a recent road trip. It was read by Stockard Channing, who I thought did a fairly good job. Each of her characters had an identifiable "voice", but Ramona's always sounded like she had a cold.
It was interesting to me that as the book was happening, I had a vague feeling of remembering having read this before, long ago...which of course is true. Some of the material is a little dated...more
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Read in August, 2008
Ramona is now seven-and-a-half, in the second grade, and at a perpetual difficult age. Things at school could be better if her spelling improves, but it's at home where the real problems are for Ramona. Ramona desperately wants a close relationship with her mother like Beezus has. But more importantly, her parents are fighting, they are both working full-time, she has to stay after school with mean Mrs. Kemp and horrible Willa Jean, and her sister Beezus is becoming a teenager. Through it all Ra...more
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سری 8 جلدی کتابهای رامونا رو به پیشنهاد و برای همراهی و تشویق خواهرزادهی 10 سالهام که تازه شروع به مطالعه کرده است خوندم.
خیلی خیلی از خوندنشون لذت بردم. کتابها با اینکه در غالب داستان برای بچهها نوشته شده بود ولی در اصل روانشناسی کودک بود. بعد از خوندن این سری کتابها ...more
خیلی خیلی از خوندنشون لذت بردم. کتابها با اینکه در غالب داستان برای بچهها نوشته شده بود ولی در اصل روانشناسی کودک بود. بعد از خوندن این سری کتابها ...more
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This is a cute book, but I find that by the time you are old enough to understand it and follow it, you are probably to old to find the pleasure and humor intended by it.
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Read in March, 2008
"'Some grandmother,' said Mr. Quimby, 'spitting on her stockings.'"
As a kid, I didn't own a copy of this, so I didn't read it quite as much as Ramona and Her Father, but loved it just the same. There's a comments discussion from a Jezebel.com book review that mentions the infamous pancake turner incident with Mr. and Mrs. Quimby. Cleary simply titles that chapter "The Quarrel," but oh man, she remembers how seriously we kids take our parents' arguments. Maybe this explains ...more
As a kid, I didn't own a copy of this, so I didn't read it quite as much as Ramona and Her Father, but loved it just the same. There's a comments discussion from a Jezebel.com book review that mentions the infamous pancake turner incident with Mr. and Mrs. Quimby. Cleary simply titles that chapter "The Quarrel," but oh man, she remembers how seriously we kids take our parents' arguments. Maybe this explains ...more
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Read in October, 2007
I loved these books as a child, but listening to it (I got it on book on CD) as an adult gave me a new respect for the book and it's author. Ramona is thriving to feel that homey feeling that she felt so often as a little girl- things as simple as the smells of dinner cooking, being read to at bed time... It made me see how the little things that I do as a mom can be so calming to my children.
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Read in January, 1991
I loved all Ramona books...but this was a favorite. I always liked the part where Ramona dyes herself blue and the part where she and her sister get new haircuts. (Ramon'a hair turns out great...but her sister's...not so great). A funny book!
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Read in January, 1989
Oh, these new covers are no good! I remember loving so much that Ramona squeezed all the toothpaste out of the tube and into the sink, that my mom actually let me do it with a really gross kind of toothpaste that nobody liked :)
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Read in January, 1990
As a kid, I devoured all the Ramona books - and I read this one too, when it came out (which I guess was '90, but it seems much older than that!) I so much identified with this girl that my nickname was "Ramona."
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Romaona is always a trouble maker! and this book doesn't change, injoy the Romaona we all love and read of her misshappes she has with her mother including her squeezing toothpaste everywhere!
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Read in January, 1985
I had to put 4 stars, because this is the edition that they chose and I'm still mad they changed the illustrations. Otherwise, this book is perfect, just like all the Ramona books!
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I love this one! I can totally relate to ramona and Beezus in this book. As you might have noticed, I like it when I can relate to the characters and know what they're feeling.
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Read in July, 2008
It is really funny to read these books as an adult; as a child I saw things from her perspective and didn't always understand how funny it all was from an adult perspective.
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Read in June, 2008
Having finished the Little House Series, we're moving on to Ramona, another series I LOVED as a child. It's amazing how much Ramona reminds me of Claire!!
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Read in January, 1986
I loved reading about Ramona as she got older and feeling like I knew her after a while. Ms. Cleary is a wonderful writer, especially for little girls to read.
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This one had some funny scenes in it. Like Ramona was mad and so she squeezed a whole tube of toothpaste into the bathroom shink. The way it was descibed was GREAT!
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Man oh man, I don't want to imagine what my childhood would have been like without the Ramona books. _Ramona and Her Mother_ was my favorite of them all.
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Read in January, 1990
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