About this title: One of the most beloved children's book characters of all time, Ramona Quimby is deeply appealing to generations of children because she is so much like a real child: decidedly imperfect and infinitely lovable. While she's hilarious, inventive, and fun, Ramona, like children everywhere, wears her wildly shifting emotions like a badge, engages in temper tantrums and bad moods, and often asks tons of troublesome questions. Children can see glimmers of themselves as they experience the crazy range of both frustrating and happy times that make up Ramona's days. Now that she's eight years old, ...
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Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780440473503ISBN:0440473500
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Ramona Quimby (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780439148078ISBN:0439148073
Description: Tiegreen, Alan. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. some light shelvewear/edgewear or would be fine or close to, very clean and fairly tight pages. 190 p. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780440473503ISBN:0440473500
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Binding square and tight, pages clean, some creasing and edgewear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Ramona Quimby (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1981-10-01
ISBN-13:9780688004781ISBN:0688004784
Description: Good. This book is Ex-library and contains typical ex-library markings. Illustrated by ALAN TIEGREEN. Moderate wear, soiling, creasing. Edges and corners bumped and rubbed. Inner front/back cover shows stains. Pages show water spots, stains and small tears. Binding slightly loose. "The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN-13:9780153052057ISBN:0153052058
Description: Good. 0153052058 Good condition soft cover book, some creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, may have corner crease, small edge tear or spine slant, a good book for reading. Shop & Save With US. read more
"Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was the first chapter book I ever read, and it opened up the world of reading for me. Until I read this book, I had hated to read. Then, in third grade, I borrowed this book from the library and loved it. I realized that there was a whole world of books out there from which I could choose for myself, and that I wasn't stuck reading only what I was forced to read in school. It may sound simple and obvious, but to an eight-year-old, this was a huge revelation! From then on, I became an avid reader!"
"Rereading this as an adult... it's really heavy! The Quimbys have money problems, Ramona thinks her teacher thinks she's a nuisance, and she feels all this pressure to be nice to stupid Willa Jean because her mom tells her it's her JOB and her family COUNTS ON HER. Cut the girl some slack, she's 8! There's one scene where her parents act affectionately towards each other and RQ is relieved, like, "whew, sometimes I worry my parents are going to get divorced because I hear them talking late at night in serious tones, but when I see them happy I feel better." Heavy!!
I feel like I want to stop rereading childhood classics because a lot of them are turning out to be buzzkills."
"I loved Beverly Cleary books when I was younger. I remember this one in particular. Ramona and smashing the egg in her hair because she thought it was hard-boiled....only it wasn't, the Yard-Ape, the umm dinner that could taste you back. I remember it being a reassurance to read about Ramona's life and to know that all of that stuff was normal. Families fought, parent's were annoying, school was tough, but in the end, everything was okay.
I loved sharing it with my daughters this time around. My oldest is eight, which makes her a "young adult" according to her. She could totally relate with Ramona. I think the mind of an eight-year-old was clearly captured by Cleary. Ramona is a bit more trouble that my daughter, but I'm pretty sure she feels the same way, she just doesn't act on it!
This is my first post relating to my 'official' Newbery Challenge I am hosting. Please feel free to join in! One down, twelve to go! Here is my list again:
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1990 Medal Winner) My Side of The Mountainby Jean Craighead George (1960 Honor) Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000 Medal Winner) Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961 Medal Winner) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1988 Honor) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1978 Medal Winner) The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (1979 Honor) The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1941 Honor) The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (1974 Medal Winner) The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George Speare (1959 Medal) Rules by Cynthia Lord (2007 Honor) Ramona Quimby, age 8 by Beverly Cleary (1982 Honor) ~completed~
~Jenn Please visit me at my blog ~Between the Lines~ www.jennifermorrill.wordpress.com"
"Ramona Quimby was a child near my age whose adventures and stories in school I read over and over for cirriculum as well as pleasure throughout my gradeschool years. They made me laugh, and I could relate to her silly stories. I can remember specifically when she tried to crack and "hard-boiled" egg and her head one day at lunch, but it turned out to be a regular egg and made a mess of her hair and clothes. I often ate hard-boiled eggs in my lunch, and risky as it turned out to be, I always cracked them open on my head like Ramona Quimby."
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