Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #94: Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary

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By: grrlpup

grrlpup — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:30:48 +0000

“Didn’t grown-ups think children worried about anything but jack-o’-lanterns? Didn’t they know children worried about grown-ups?” No other book I’ve read has expressed this frustration so clearly.

By: Jennifer Schultz

Jennifer Schultz — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:52:42 +0000

My favorite Ramona book. I love all the books-except perhaps the final one, which I didn’t read until I was in graduate school–but this one is the best.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:17:14 +0000

This was the most memorable of the series for me – how Ramona tried to cheer her dad up and find him a new job (circling the classifieds, right?), and how she felt when he had to deal with her making mistakes like making the burr crown (ow ow ow). I think this was the one where she first started to feel some responsibility for her family and some empathy worrying about how others feel, even though it was partly about how it impacted her.

And I’ll always remember her replacing her father’s cigarettes with rolled-up anti-smoking notes.

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:16:51 +0000

This is my favorite Ramona. I didn’t have a Ramona on my list, but if I HAD, I would have picked this one.

By: DaNae

DaNae — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:59:08 +0000

The brilliance of Cleary: the ability to take a complicated adult issue and show it through genuine child eyes.

Not my Ramona, but in this case the more Klickitat the better.