Ramona Quimby Age 8
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The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.
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Stockard Channing
All children will identify with Ramona starting 3rd Grade: feeling grown-up, doing silent reading, resenting having to play hairdressers with her erstwhile younger playmate Willa Jean, and her sister Beezus turning her into a moody 'big girl' immersed in homework. Ramona gets raw egg in her hair, she's sick in class, her family is always bad tempered ... everything's going wrong. The message of this fast-paced story is that all families have bad times: the remedy is sticking together and talking about them. The racy narration is without sound effects and appropriately all-American.
