About this title: Ramona Quimby can't wait to get to kindergarten, but when she arrives she finds it incredibly confusing. The teacher tells her to sit in her seat "for the present," but the present never comes. During recess, she finds herself stuck on a bench while the other kids get to play games--just because she couldn't resist pulling on another girl's curls ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780380709540ISBN:0380709546
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ramona Quimby (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Very Good. 0439147999 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell Publishing, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Darling, Louis. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps are aging with edgewear. Pages clean with no markings. School stamp inside book. read more
"Ramona the Pest is a very funny chapter book about Ramona Quimby's kindergarten experience. Ramona has waited all her life for kindergarten, watching her older sister Beatrice, but now her time has come! The tale about Ramona starts with her first day of kindergarten, the greatest day of her life. Ramona loves her school and her teacher, but somehow Ramona gets into a lot of trouble. This rambunctious five-year-old thinks she is ready for all the rite and passages that go along with growing up. However, is Ramona really ready to face these life lessons? This ongoing saga of Ramona is engaging for students, since many of them have experienced many of the same things as this little pest.
I absolutly loved this book! I think it will now become my first chapter book read aloud with my class! Since I teach 1st grade, my students will be able to relate to all the experience that Ramona is havng in Kindergarten. My first graders will understand and being able to make connections to the feelings and new situations that Ramona is having in school, with family, and friends. This book was charming and made me laugh just thinking about my personal experience as a Kindergartener as well as how much my students would be hooked to this pesty character. The book offers wonderful oppurtunties to share feels as well as inapppropriate and appropriate behaviors. I look forward to reading the next Ramona book where she is in first grade. Hopefully I will like that one just as much and be able to share it with my students!"
"This is a fun book to read aloud with your children. I don't remember reading the Ramona books when I was young, but I did love "The Mouse and the Motorcycle." So when our oldest daughter brought this book home from her school library, we were very excited to read it. I had no idea when it was originally published, although there were several parts of the book that harkened back to an earlier time. I was a bit surprised that Ramona was allowed to be at home by herself and walk alone to school and I was also surprised that she was "kicked out" of Kindergarten, but I suppose Kindergarten was far less mandatory back then and people weren't nearly as overprotective of their children as we are nowadays. Finally, I barely caught myself from reading aloud that she thought the tooth fairy wasn't real, that she thought it was her Dad. Our girls haven't even lost a tooth yet, so I didn't want to spoil it for them yet. It wasn't a big deal, but I had to modify what I read aloud for that bit. I see a lot of similarities in the "Junie B. Jones" series with this book and I'm sure that Barbara Park was influenced by Ms. Cleary. We are looking forward to reading more books in this series."
"This was one of my first Spanish attempts. It's tough to find books at the right level in a foreign language, but this one hit the spot while I was taking Spanish lessons in Sevilla.
The repetition and linearity of kid's books are much easier to follow even when I lack some of the important vocabulary. Even with some missing details, I could see what an interesting perspective into the world of a kindergartner this tale provides. Her teacher, surely a compilation drawn together from real ones, his a real hero."
""Ramona was filled with the glory of losing her first tooth and love for her teacher." Oh the excitement of going to kindergarten! When everything about school was interesting and you were officially on the right track to Growing Up. When - if you were lucky - you could love your teacher.
There is no one quite like Ramona, yet so many readers relate to her. With this re-read, I noticed how Cleary conveys Ramona's excitement at finally getting to do some of things that she has been impatiently waiting for. "This year, after years of sitting on the benches with mothers and little brothers and sisters, Ramona was finally going to get to wear a costume and march around and around the playground. This year she had a doughnut and apple juice coming to her." When you're five and you've been waiting, you've been waiting a very long time.
I also appreciated Henry's kindness when he rescues Ramona and then her boots from the mud puddle. "Ramona expected him to add, I hope you're satisfied, but he did not."
And, as always, I adore stolid Howie and how his calm can drive Ramona bonkers.
The Louis Darling illustrations are perfect and it pains me to think of those new cutesy illustrations out there."
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