Ramona just one of Beverly Cleary’s notable characters By Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune
Published: April 1, 2021, 6:07am
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2 Photos Beverly Cleary signs books in 1998 at the Monterey Bay Book Festival in Monterey, Calif. The beloved children s author, whose characters Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins enthralled generations of youngsters, died last week. She was 104. (Vern Fisher/The Monterey County Herald) Photo Gallery
When I first met Ramona Quimby, she was only 4 years old and already showing signs of greatness.
This was a kid who could secretly summon 15 friends to her house without her mother suspecting a thing – at least until the children started arriving on the doorstep, expecting a party. Ramona could ruin two birthday cakes in a single day, turn the entire house upside down with only a box of apples, and make herself the center of attention anywhere, any time – with or without the paper Easter bunny ears she would proudly don fo
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