![]() ![]() And yet they’re brilliant in that they, along with everything else in this book, give children the sense that somebody else understands what it’s like to be a child. The thoughtful correlations that Beezus eventually makes between herself and Ramona and their mother and Aunt Beatrice are simple, easily grasped. Not to be naughty, in this instance, or to ruin Beezus’s birthday, but just “To see what would happen.” Naturally. Cleary gets why Ramona would do something so silly and troublesome as dump and mix whole eggs, shells and all, into the batter that’s supposed to become Beezus’s birthday cake. ![]() She gets why four-year-old Ramona, whenever asked what color her eyes are, would answer, “Brown and white,” and why Beezus would be so annoyed at this answer that just isn’t right, even while she grudgingly has to admit, inwardly, that Ramona makes sense. Nine-year-old Beezus (so nicknamed back when her younger sister could not yet pronounce “Beatrice”) is sure her sister Ramona must be the most “exasperating” sister in the world, and this chronicle shows how much their unremarkable yet remarkable little adventures warrant…well, warrant being chronicled.Ĭleary just gets it. ![]() I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather to how perfect they are to me.īeezus and Ramona: the first book in an awesome series by my favorite childhood author, Beverly Cleary. ![]()
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