Others included “Ramona the Pest” and “Ramona and Her Father.” In 1981, “Ramona and Her Mother” won the National Book Award.Ĭleary wasn’t writing recently because she said she felt “it’s important for writers to know when to quit.” In all, there were eight books on Ramona between “Beezus and Ramona” in 1955 and “Ramona’s World” in 1999. We played hopscotch and jump rope and I loved them and always had scraped knees.” “At the age of Ramona, in those days, children played outside. “I was a well-behaved little girl, not that I wanted to be,” she said. She kept appearing in every book,” she said in a March 2016 telephone interview from her California home.Ĭleary herself was an only child and said the character wasn’t a mirror. “All the children appeared to be only children so I tossed in a little sister and she didn’t go away.
Ramona, perhaps her best-known character, made her debut in “Henry Huggins” with only a brief mention.
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