'Hurry, Mama,' said Ramona happily, as she watched Beezus and Mary Jane go out the door.But when Ramona finally got her mother out of the house. Cleary's imagination is almost as lively as Ramona's. No longer would she have to sit on her tricycle watching Beezus and Henry Huggins and the rest of the boys and girls in the neighborhood go off to school. The riot that ensues is probably the most hilarious episode in this extremely funny book, which proves that Mrs. Starting with a fairly mild encounter with the librarian, which is harder on Beezus than anyone else, Ramona goes from strength to strength, winding up by inviting her entire kindergarten class to a part at her home without mentioning it to her mother. In this book Ramona and her imagination really come into their own. She simply has more imagination than is healthy for any one person. It is not that Ramona deliberately sets out to make trouble for other people. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, and to his dog Ribsy. She is also far and away the most deadly. One day after school Henry Huggins, who lievd in the next block, came over to play checkers with Beezus. Ramona first appeared in Cleary’s debut novel, 1950’s Henry Huggins, as the irritating little sister of Henry’s friend Beezus. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs.
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