The Complete 8-Book Ramona Collection: Beezus and Ramona, Ramona and Her Father, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona Forever, Ramona the Brave, Ramona the Pest, Ramona's World

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Hates Baths: Ramona hates having her hair washed as a toddler. Whenever Mrs. Quimby washes her hair, Ramona squirms around and screams the whole time. She gets better about it when she gets older. Davy: A timid, skinny boy whom Ramona used to chase around the playground each day in kindergarten. In Beezus and Ramona, a neighbor lady spots the Quimby sisters out on a walk and, as a way of making conversation with Ramona, askes her what color her eyes are. Ramona promptly responds that they are "brown and white". Beezus notes that Ramona always answers that question that way and muses that in a way she can't really fault her- after all, Ramona is technically correct. Fun with Acronyms: In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona's class's silent reading time is designated as DEAR, "Drop Everything and Read." Ramona prefers her teacher's original term for it, "Sustained Silent Reading," however, because it sounds more grown-up. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) — Ramona is in third grade. Yard Ape, a male friend/rival, is introduced.

Ramona the Pest, similar to the remaining books in the series, is composed from Ramona’s perspective. In Ramona the Pest Ramona enters kindergarten. The succeeding books tail her as she grows up and progresses through school, generally at the rate of one evaluation more than two books. Composed from the 1950s through the 1990s, dates aren’t said in the books, and the kids are intended to speak to genuine kids in whenever period. The last Ramona book, Ramona’s World, was distributed in 1999, 15 years after the past one.Uncle Hobart Kemp: Howie's uncle who marries Ramona's aunt, Beatrice. He is Mr. Kemp's younger brother. He makes his only appearance in Ramona Forever. My God, What Have I Done?: In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus feels guilty whenever she loses her temper with Ramona because she feels she ought to always love her sister, no matter what. Near the end, she confesses this to her mother and Aunt Beatrice, who assure her that Sibling Rivalry is perfectly normal. Your Other Left / Who's on First?: "Do I turn left?"/"Right" happens in Ramona and Her Mother, when Beezus is giving her mother directions to get to the hairstylist's.

Everyone Has Standards: Unsaid, but some of Ramona's first-grade classmates go out of their way to be nicer to her after the teacher forces her to apologize to Susan in front of the entire class for scrunching her owl. Ramona to Beezus, especially when she was younger. She constantly bugs Beezus to play with her when Beezus wants to do other things and often embarrasses her in front of others (such as stealing one of her classmates' candy, disrupting the board game she was playing with Henry, and destroying Beezus's birthday cake by shoving her doll inside the batter while it was in the oven).Beezus could not help feeling annoyed. Miss Robbins was letting Ramona stay in the class—the one place where she was never allowed to tag along! Miss Robbins would probably like her painting, because it would be so full of imagination. Ramona’s pictures, in fact, were so full of imagination that it took even more imagination to tell what they were. The sad story of the woman known as the 'real Ramona' ". Press Enterprise. July 30, 2020 . Retrieved March 9, 2022. Gift-Giving Gaffe: Uncle Hobart, apparently not knowing a lot about kids, gives Willa Jean an accordion that she couldn't possibly learn how to play until she's much older. Not surprisingly, she breaks it within less than an hour. More Insulting than Intended: Ramona angrily calls her sister Beezus "pizza-face". She merely thinks of it as a variation on "pieface," an insult that she's heard bandied around the playground. But she realizes when she sees Beezus' face crumple that she must have crossed a line. She later explains why she used that term, and Beezus admits to her in turn that she got upset because of how sensitive she's been about an acne problem of late. The two sisters thus apologize to each other for their argument.