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[[File:ramona-illustration.jpg|frame|The first grade teacher's lavishing praise on the copycat instead of Ramona! (One of many real-life situations covered by these books)]] |
[[File:ramona-illustration.jpg|frame|The first grade teacher's lavishing praise on the copycat instead of Ramona! (One of many real-life situations covered by these books)]] |
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Well-known and beloved children's book series by [[Beverly Cleary]] about a girl named Ramona Quimby, whose age ranges from 4 to 10 as we see different years of her life. |
Well-known and beloved children's book series by [[Beverly Cleary]] about a girl named Ramona Quimby, whose age ranges from 4 to 10 as we see different years of her life. |
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And things like that are why these books just work. |
And things like that are why these books just work. |
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The series has been made into a short-lived TV show in Canada, simply called ''[[Ramona |
The series has been made into a short-lived TV show in Canada, simply called ''[[Ramona (TV series)|Ramona]]'', which emphasized the light drama found in the books over the light humor, and is most heavily based on ''Ramona Quimby, Age 8''. Notable in that it completely averts [[Dawson Casting]]. |
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A movie, titled ''[[Ramona and Beezus (film)|Ramona and Beezus]]'', has also been made. |
A movie, titled ''[[Ramona and Beezus (film)|Ramona and Beezus]]'', has also been made. |
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** Susan. |
** Susan. |
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* [[Always Someone Better]]: Susan is pretty, sweet, and good at looking good in front of adults. Ramona envies and is jealous of her and it colors their relation for the entire run of the series. |
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Susan is pretty, sweet, and good at looking good in front of adults. Ramona envies and is jealous of her and it colors their relation for the entire run of the series. |
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* [[Americanitis]]: Inverted by the 1980s series which moved the setting from [[Portland]] to [[Toronto|Southern Ontario]] [[Canada Does Not Exist|with the serial numbers filed off]]. |
* [[Americanitis]]: Inverted by the 1980s TV series which moved the setting from [[Portland]] to [[Toronto|Southern Ontario]] [[Canada Does Not Exist|with the serial numbers filed off]]. |
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* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Beezus considers Ramona to be this. When Ramona is first introduced in ''Beezus and Ramona'', she comes off like this to the reader, but becomes more sympathetic as time goes on and we see things from her point of view in her own series. |
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Beezus considers Ramona to be this. When Ramona is first introduced in ''Beezus and Ramona'', she comes off like this to the reader, but becomes more sympathetic as time goes on and we see things from her point of view in her own series. |
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Ramona's is when people find her amusing when she is trying to be serious. |
* [[Berserk Button]]: Ramona's is when people find her amusing when she is trying to be serious. |
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