Picky-picky stopped washing and left the room. "I'm going to say a bad word!" she shouted with a stamp of her foot. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice. She had been miserable the whole first grade, and she no longer cared what happened. Is Chapter Eight: Ramona Says A Bad Word. Her loving Beezus' teacher? Gotta love that!īut the absolutely best scene in Ramona the Brave. And the bit about her getting chased with a dog and making a new shoe with some paper and a stapler. Her note to her mother gets me every time. Her destroying Susan's owl and then later repenting and feeling guilty. All Ramona wants is for her teacher to like her, to appreciate her, to understand her, to not label her a trouble-maker.ĭrama, drama, drama. And her teacher is not like Miss Binney at all. Susan's prone to copy-catting and tattle taling.įirst grade is not making a good impression on Ramona. And she's going to try her best not to let Susan and her boing-boing curls tempt her into trouble. All that in addition to both girls starting a new school year.Ī new school year, a new teacher, some old familiar classmates.
But this was the seventies.) And the Quimbys' are going to be adding another room onto the house so that Beezus and Ramona won't have to share. Quimby is going to be working outside the home. Big changes are on the way, Beezus now wants to be called Beatrice. "Ramona Quimby, brave and fearless, was half running, half skipping to keep up with her big sister Beatrice on their way home from the park." Ramona is getting ready to start the first grade now. Just a note, a rather important note: the covers that I've been pairing with the reviews are the new books with the new illustrations. Mostly wrong in principle, but wrong all the same. These new illustrations are by Tracy Dockray. The publishers that removed the Garth Williams illustrations from the Little House books wouldn't bat an eye about updating the illustrations for Ramona. I suppose it's what I can expect from HarperCollins. Okay, I admit it is exaggerating it a bit.
The edition of Ramona the Brave that I was able to find on the library shelves was ghastly.
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