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Apr 16, 2008

Jeanette rated it:

I decided to read this on a bit of a whim. Inspired by D.E.A.R day I pulled out some of my old books from when I was a kid. I don't think I have read a Beverly Cleary book since I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I did read her autobiographies when I was in 7th grade for a book report. I always loved Beverly Cleary and I am excited to return to this great children's classics.
9 year old Beezus, who always seems so level-headed, is dealing with the antics of her "creative" 4 year old siste More...

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Sep 22, 2007

Jackie "the Librarian" rated it:

As a read-aloud, young children will relate to Ramona, and older, independent readers will feel Beezus's pain.
This is my favorite Ramona book, because of the episode with the library book (I'm a librarian, see). Ramona, being only four, colors in the steamshovel book Beezus checked out for her from the library, and they have to pay for it. When the librarian stamps the book "Discarded," and prepares to hand it back to the girls, Beezus sees the danger just in time. If they gi More...

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Oct 06, 2008

Asilenna rated it:

I have been reading all of the Ramona books, in order, to my oldest son for the past couple of months. What is amazing to me is how much I remember from these books, and I haven't read any of them for 30 years. Beverly Cleary is amazing. She's so good at seeing the world through kid and grown-up eyes at the same time. And she's so funny. Hearing my son laugh out loud every time Ramona does or says something pesky or silly is music to my ears. We are now on the last Ramona book (Ramona's World) a More...

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Oct 28, 2011

Sarah rated it:

Beezus and Ramona is told from Beezus' point of view. It was written by Beverly Cleary. Beezus and Ramona is about the sister, Beezus having to put up with all of her little sister’s antics. Being an older sister can be a hard thing sometimes. And little siblings can sometimes ruin your things. The book Beezus and Ramona is a contemporary realistic fiction book. I think the appropriate age group for this book would be around 2nd or 3rd grade. I rated the book high because I thought that it More...

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Jul 17, 2011

Jessica rated it:

Adam received several Ramona books for his birthday. I read this one to the boys on our vacation and both of the boys loved it--they liked hearing about the different ways Ramona was naughty. For the uninitiated, Ramona is the precocious little sister and Beezus is the sensible big sister in this series by Beverly Cleary. Beezus would prefer to read quietly or work on craft projects or play checkers with a friend; Ramona puts jelly on her potatoes and likes loud machinery and imaginary lizard More...

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Apr 08, 2011

Edna rated it:

’ All right, Ramona ‘’ said her mother with a touch of exasperation.(pg182)

That was a sentence of the book. The characters are Bezzus and Ramona.
Bezzus is the oldest and thinks that it’s all ways Ramona’s fault.

The setting was mostly at home .for example one Ramona dressed
up like a buuny with some buuny ears .her parents and Bezzus
went for a walk and met there neighbors .she started jumping
up and down her neighbors told her that she l More...

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Mar 12, 2011

Robyn rated it:

There were many things about this book that I found mystifying as a child. A lot of the language and many of the things Beezus does come from an older time, such as her needle point. This did not, however dampen my enjoyment of this book. I had read many of the other books in the Ramona series before I had read this one, and it was both fun and interesting to see the characters at an earlier time. Additionally, some of Ramona's antics in this book are referenced in the later ones, so as a child More...

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Feb 26, 2011

Elsie rated it:

Awww.... who didn't love the Ramona books when they were little. As part of my Page-to-Screen Challenge, I'm re-reading Beezus and Ramona. I watched the movie at the beginning of the year, so it's been a few weeks in between. There are some definite differences.

The Ramona in the book is only four-years-old. The Ramona in the movie is more like eight-years-old or so. I do believe (if I can remember back that far) that many of Ramona's antics in the movie (the toothpaste in the sink More...

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Jan 05, 2011

nicole rated it:

I hadn't read a Ramona book since... third grade? I loved them, of course, and there are chapters and trouble-makings I've not forgotten since, but I had no recollection of the writing itself, of whether it was something I could still enjoy as an adult. I was a little nervous to pick it back up, afraid that it would be as mushy as something like The Penderwicks seems to me now, or that the "problem" of the novel would be too simplistic and bore me.

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Nov 08, 2010

Sri rated it:

Beezus adalah nama panggilan Ramona kepada Beatrice, kakaknya. Beatrice dinamai sama seperti adik ibunya. Namun bukan karena nama yang sama saja yang membuat Beatrice sangat mengagumi bibinya itu.
Beatrice anak yang manis, pintar dan cenderung pemalu. Sedangkan Ramona anak yang ekspresif dan keras kepala. Sebagai seorang kakak kadang Beezus dibuat tidak sabar dan malu oleh tingkah pola Ramona. Namun tak jarang pula Beatrice iri pada sifat-sifat yang dimiliki adiknya. Di saat Beezus tidak men More...

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May 05, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

I know I read some of the Ramona books as a child but I don't have particularly strong memories of them, so listening to the audiobook was an interesting experience. Stockard Channing narrates this Listening Library edition and I was disappointed with the results. I really enjoy Channing's film and tv work, but the narration just didn't work for me. Her children's voices were either whiny or outright obnoxious which makes it hard for me to decide how much of my dislike of Ramona was the writing More...

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Feb 10, 2010

Lauren rated it:

My five year old and I just finished Beezus and Ramona, the first book in the Ramona series. I remember loving these books as a child and I could not wait to share them with my daughter.

Not surprisingly my daughter loves Ramona. She thinks she's hilarious and laughs at Ramona's antics. However, she is very appreciative that her 3.5 year old sister is way As a Mom, I like the books less as an adult compared to as a child. Yes, Ramona is still hilarious. But as a Mom, I can't help More...

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Feb 22, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

Four stars only because I know they just get better as the series progresses. While some reviewers complained that this book is now "dated," I enjoyed the glimpses into the 1950s. Ramona lives out her "early years" there, but does most of her growing up in the '70s and '80s. So as the books go on, we see how her family reflects the times. In Beezus and Ramona, for example, her father is nearly invisible: off to work, then grumbling and reading the newspaper in his favorite ch More...

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Jun 29, 2010

Josiah rated it:

Is it possible? Could there really be a Ramona book that makes the reader sympathize with Beezus more than Ramona, the most famous little sister in children's literature?

If so, that is exactly the case in the pages of Beezus and Ramona. Beverly Cleary tells the story in a series of short, semi-related tales of Ramona's mischief and how it affects Beezus as she tries to live her own life. Ramona is wilder and more difficult to control in this book than in any of the others that I've More...

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Apr 21, 2011

Angie rated it:

I know I really enjoyed the Ramona books as a child and they do stand up pretty well on rereading. Ramona is clearly a rambunctious kid and Beezus really has to put up with a lot as a big sister. As a big sister myself I can clearly understand some of her frustrations. Although I don't think my little sisters were anywhere near as bad as Ramona. I think this book is fun and kids today will enjoy them as much as kids have in the past 50 years. However, there are some things that do date the books More...

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Jun 01, 2011

Neishaboo added it

the name of my book is called beezus and ramona and i just started reading it so i didnt find nothing interesting so far so i just know it is about a girl name ramona, because she is the main character of the book.and beezus is just her sister in the book but she's really not doing anything in the book she just comes in the book off and on.

i just got finish reading so hat i read was that ramona had got in trouble already, what she did to get in trouble was that she was ri More...

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Nov 12, 2010

Rachel rated it:

Four year old Ramona is always messing stuff up and driving her nine year old big sister Beezus crazy. This book was published in 1955 and has stood the test of time. I remember reading Ramona books when I was little and loving them so I was thrilled when Cash wanted to read this book. He loved it. He can relate to Beezus because he has a four year old little brother who can be pretty ornery just like Ramona. I can relate to Ramona’s mother feeling exasperated and not knowing what to do with her More...

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Feb 03, 2009

Jodi rated it:

I loved books about Ramona when I was in grade school and I am so excited to be able to begin reading them to my daughter. My little girl is very mischievous and sometime goes a little "overboard" on her projects like Ramona. Then when aI get angry with her she doesn't always understand why I am upset - like Ramona. My daughter is also dealing with a 4 year old brother who frustrates her sometimes so I think she understood Beezus's frustration with Ramona at times throughout the boo More...

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Jan 27, 2011

Douceline rated it:

nice book hehe heard theres a movie too

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Mar 25, 2011

Caroline rated it:

Ramona gets into a lot of trouble like bad situations sometimes. They might be able to fix it but not all the time!!!!!!!!!

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May 23, 2010

Erin rated it:

Ages 8 to 11

4-year-old spunky Ramona drives her older sister crazy with silly antics such as playing Gretel by putting her baby doll's head in the oven while Beezus's birthday cake is cooking, inviting kids over for a birthday party without letting her mom know, and "writing" her name in every page of a library book because she wanted to own it. First of the Ramona books.

"Beezus felt that the biggest trouble with four-year-old Ramona was that she was just p More...

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Aug 16, 2011

Kim rated it:

in the spirit of Peter and Fudge, another great illustration of the love-hate relationship between big and little siblings. Aidan could relate to the responsibility Beezus faces as the big sibling, yet he could still giggle along to Ramona's antics. His favorite scene, by far, was the unexpected party that arrived at the Quimby household thanks to Ramona - his laughter was so genuine it made me smile. The only knock? The vocabulary and dialogue is starting to show its age a bit and, at times, fe More...

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Apr 23, 2011

Isabelle rated it:

This book was fine but i would actully give it 4 and a half stars if i could Beezus is alwase sometimes mad at Ramona for something but its a really good book if you reed up to the fourth book and then watch the movie the movie was kinda sad because Ramonas cat Pickey Pickey dies. whats funny is that ramona thinks that her house will be taken away because she herd her parrents talking about it. then she gets a wonderfull idea well to her. She gets out Beezuses desk and sells lemmonade then she c More...

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Mar 29, 2010

meg rated it:

it's been years and years since i read the ramona books (about twenty two if you must know) and decided to re-read them all before i go to portland next month and visit klickitat street. it's amazing how many scenes still stand out in my mind and capture my heart. this first ramona book was written in the mid-fifties (unlike the rest written in the sixties, seventies, and eighties) and follows nine-year-old beezus, who is constantly annoyed by the shennaningans of four-year-old ramona, whether s More...

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Sep 01, 2011

Jamie rated it:

Somehow the Ramona books eluded me as a kid because I had never read any of them until I picked this one up after seeing the new movie (which was wonderful by the way). I did, however, read all of the Fudge books by Blume and I can see the similarities between the two characters who drive their older siblings crazy with their antics.

I did get a bit of a kick out of the stark differences between Cleary's 1955 world and our world today where a parent would never considering sending the More...

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Sep 25, 2010

Rachel rated it:

The Ramona books were some of my very favorites in my young days. I'm not exactly sure what it was about them that made them so, but reading them now, later in life, I think it may just be that they were some of my very first chapter books.

As an adult reader, I appreciate that the writing is not "dumbed down" for kids--children will definitely learn what the word "exasperated" means! It was one, however, that didn't hold up as much, being read as an adult, at l More...

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Aug 22, 2007

Zoe rated it:

Recently found a copy of this secondhand and snapped it up. I loved this series as a kid and found rereading it as an adult to be quite enjoyable as well. Plus, turns out Beverly Cleary was a librarian! Awesome!

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Nov 28, 2011

Lindsay rated it:

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I loved this series as a child and love that it's still around! Kids can relate so well to these book and as I read them to my niece sometimes it even brings back memories to me and I have a great time reading them as well. I used to think why do I put plastic bags over my socks then stuff them into boots, but they do that in these books so as a child I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I like these books a lot better than Junie B. Jones, because I don't want my k More...

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Jan 18, 2012

Gina rated it:

I just finished reading this with my daughter. When I was little I loved Bevery Cleary books and I found out that I still like them. I have been trying to get my daughter to read my old editions but she thought they would be dumb. LOL! However, after she saw the movie with Selina Gomez as Beezus she was dying to read it! She could easily have read it herself but I wanted to read it too so we decided to read it together before she went to bed. It took awhile to get through but it was a good More...

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Oct 04, 2009

Kaneboutte rated it:

Beezus and Ramona is about two sisters one, of which has a giant amagination which drives the older sister beatrice mad. This book is children's fiction because this book is made up to amuse the reader. I think this book is a good book if you want to get little giggle in you. I will give you a part of the story that makes it so funny. In one part of the story a librarian tells ramona to print her name on a piece of paper, she wrote a bunch t's and i's in cursive because thats how she likes it. More...

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