I remember reading the Ralph S Mouse book, and also watching the movies. I used to think they were so cool. I kind of wish they'd make a new version with better quality of mouse. I recently tried re-watching it but I guess because I've lost my childhood imagination couldn't get past the stop motion mouse.
Beverly Cleary has died
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#22Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in the Henry/Beezus/Ramona series that was published at the time (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there's another book, Ramona's World, that was published after I…
my favorite character is still Nosmo King
Haha that is literally the only part of any Ramona book which I still remember all these years later. “Who’s Mr. King?” I remember her dad asking.
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#23Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in the Henry/Beezus/Ramona series that was published at the time (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there's another book, Ramona's World, that was published after I…
Oh man, Ralph S. Mouse! How I loved that book, I'd forgotten that Beverly Cleary had written it.
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#24I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books. Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my reading for a few good years.
Man, you're taking me right back to 4th grade. Well, at least the good parts, anyway.
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#25I hated those books. They read as if written like what an adult thinks kids are like instead of being what kids think kids are like. Every kid-character was a thoughtless menace to everyone else around them without a shred of empathy. That’s great if you’re an adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn’t want to identify with the characters at all. I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically intellig…
Did you hate them as a kid, or as an adult reading them to kids?
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#27I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books. Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my reading for a few good years.
I really liked Henry Huggins. It was easier to relate to him than to a girl, though I enjoyed Ramona Quimby stories too. I think it was a story about Henry and night crawlers that got me thinking about how to start my own business. I failed (I lived on a farm in a sparsely populated part of the world) but I spent days, maybe weeks, trying to come up with ways to make money.
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#28Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in the Henry/Beezus/Ramona series that was published at the time (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there's another book, Ramona's World, that was published after I…
Oh man, Ralph S. Mouse! How I loved that book, I'd forgotten that Beverly Cleary had written it.
As a child I read "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" countless times over. A forgotten part of my childhood right there.
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#29I loved Henry Huggins and me and my neighborhood friends attempted so many of his antics: we built forts, we tried dowsing for water, and hunting for nightcrawler worms to earn money.
I read all of them to my young boys; they’re a throwback to a simpler time, when most kids spent their days outside, dirty, playing with their friends. I’ve tried my best to recreate Klikitat Street for them because, in my opinion, it’s the ideal way to grow up.
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#30I was a compulsive reader at 11 and read everything she wrote but still wanting more I searched the adult card catalog section and was delighted to find "Wifey!" Well there's a chapter where the protagonist has an affair which is described in both physical and mental details. Let's just say my mind isn't the only thing that was blown!
RIP Beverly you were loved!