They made the joke several times during the holidays, erupting into fits of laughter all over again. My kids especially burst into hysterics when they learned that when Beezus was young, she thought the three wise men had brought Jesus myrrh for his diaper rash. I am grateful for those laughs during those hard days - when Ramona worked herself into a frenzy thinking PTA was code for potato chips she wasn’t allowed to have, and when she relentlessly pestered Beezus into reading her favorite book. I cried at the end of some chapters, grateful that my own five-year-old could enter into that world yet sad that she wasn’t having those Ramona-esque experiences. We especially loved “Ramona the Pest,” as it allowed my daughter, a kindergartener not in the classroom, to get a glimpse of school life from a five-year-old’s point of view. My own mother, who lives far from my family, began mailing Cleary’s books to my kids back at the beginning of this distance learning year.Įvery afternoon following school, my kids and I would sit in our living room and pour over the Ramona series together. Beverly Cleary has meant the world to my children and I during the coronavirus pandemic.
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