In all, there were eight books on Ramona between Beezus and Ramona in 1955 and Ramona's World in 1999. We played hopscotch and jump rope and I loved them and always had scraped knees." "At the age of Ramona, in those days, children played outside. "I was a well-behaved little girl, not that I wanted to be," she said. She kept appearing in every book," she said in a March 2016 telephone interview from her California home.Ĭleary herself was an only child and said the character wasn't a mirror. "All the children appeared to be only children, so I tossed in a little sister and she didn't go away. Ramona, perhaps her best-known character, made her debut in Henry Huggins with only a brief mention. Among the Henry titles were Henry and Ribsy, Henry and the Paper Route and Henry and Beezus.
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