When it came time to name the sister, I caught a neighbor shout to another whose name was Ramona. “Somebody ought to have a kin,” she wrote in My Own Two Feet, “so I hurled in a younger sibling to clarify Beezus’ epithet. It jumped out at Cleary (while composing Henry Huggins) that the greater part of the characters she had made hitherto had no siblings or sisters. In the Henry Huggins books Beezus was one of Henry’s companions, and her more youthful sister Ramona was for the most part a vermin to Henry, Beezus and the other kids. The Ramona books became out of Cleary’s before Henry Huggins series and happen in the same neighborhood. Here and there known as the Beezus and Ramona series, starting 2012 the books were being advertised by HarperCollins as “The Complete Ramona Collection”. Two books in the series were named Newbery Honor books, Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age eight Ramona as well as her mother got the National Book Award. The last book, Ramona’s World, was distributed in 1999. The principal book, Ramona and Beezus, showed up in 1955. The Ramona books are a progression of eight diverting youngsters’ books by Beverly Cleary that inside on Ramona Quimby, her family and companions.
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