Ramona Books

Then there were these books. I felt like Ramona. My hair even appeared a lot like hers. She had an older sister; I had an older brother. That was an "only difference" which I remember noticing. As I navigated those elementary years of being a sister, she was a younger-sister-comrade-in-crime, &I found this book to be a special one for me.

Beverly Cleary's collection of these books won my heart from an early age. Mom & I would read them together & she would help me see if any of the other Ramona books would be checked in when we returned any; she knew I really took to them & she liked [read: approved] of their writing[read: message]. Whenever our family visited the local library they would almost always be a part of the heaping pile of books I'd be checking out until I'd finished reading them all.

Most every "going-on" that Ramona encountered seemed to parallel those of my own. She didn't get into shenanigans, nor was she a klutz, yet through the books I'd read various "any girl" things. Some that I could connect with, some that I was glad I hadn't had to deal with, & some that I wished would be a part of my "every day" just the same.

I also always found her name peculiar. It's not that often that the letter "Q" gets into a name (well, maybe it's becoming more popular in more recent generations with names like Quinn 😂) & I think I always felt Ramona had it a little bit worse for the wear simply because she was stumbling through her childhood, managing along with a "Qu" last name to boot. It seemed awkward & unwanted to me. Her first name wasn't much on the popularity scale either, though the abbreviated version, "Mona" seemed sweet & I won't have minded trading it in for my own. 😁



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