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Beezus and Ramona is a 1955 children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is the first of Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice, known as Beezus. Beezus and Ramona is realistic fiction, written from nine-year-old Beezus's point of view, as she struggles to get along with her four-year-old sister. Eventually becoming the first book of the Ramona series, it was originally illustrated by Louis Darling.
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Classical in form, spare, intimate and warm.
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- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Beverly Cleary
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Perfection Learning Prebound, William Morrow & Company
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- dan, Swedish, gre, German
- ISBN
- 9780440406655
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“BEATRICE QUIMBY'S biggest problem was her little sister Ramona.”
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