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Ramona and Beezus is a 2010 American family adventure comedy drama film adaptation based on the Ramona series of novels written by Beverly Cleary. [3] [4] It was directed by Elizabeth Allen, co-produced by Dune Entertainment, Di Novi Pictures, and Walden Media, written by Laurie Craig and Nick Pustay, and produced by Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan with music by Mark Mothersbaugh.
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.
Cleary's Ramona books have been adapted for Canadian television as Ramona. The 10-part Canadian television series starred Sarah Polley as Ramona and Lori Chodos as Beezus. [11] They were also made into the American movie Ramona and Beezus, released on July 23, 2010, starring Joey King as Ramona and Selena Gomez as Beezus. [12]
Cleary's first book, Henry Huggins (1950), was the first in a series of fictional chapter books about Henry, his dog Ribsy, his neighborhood friend Beezus and her little sister Ramona. [13] When writing the book, Cleary took inspiration from the times she composed stories for children during Saturday afternoon story hours when she worked as a ...
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Beatrice Ann "Beezus" Quimby is a character from the Henry Huggins and Ramona series of books by Beverly Cleary. She is the friend of Henry and Mary Jane and the older sister of Ramona and Roberta. Beezus earned her nickname from Ramona, who had a hard time saying "Beatrice" as a toddler.
The Ramona specific series focus on Ramona as she grows from a child in nursery school (Beezus and Ramona) to one in the fourth grade (Ramona's World). Topics Ramona faces in the books range from financial instability, the death of a family pet, school bullies, divorce, marriage, to sibling relations and experiencing the addition of a new sibling.
Robert Quimby - Ramona and Beezus' father. Dorothy Quimby - Ramona and Beezus' mother. Howard "Howie" Kemp - Ramona's friend since nursery school in Beezus and Ramona, who becomes her cousin-in-law. Aunt Beatrice "Aunt Bea" - The girls' aunt and Dorothy's sister. First introduced in Beezus and Ramona, she is a third-grade teacher and marries ...