Scan barcode
joelevard's review against another edition
4.0
Ramona's stress over her parents' money troubles was pretty heart-wrenching to read, as a parent. These are different books when you read them TO your kids instead of AS a kid, that's for sure.
geolatin's review against another edition
4.0
I had forgotten that this was about the family dynamic when Ramona’s dad loses his job and she also tries to get him to stop smoking.
ikuo1000's review against another edition
5.0
I wish I could just review the entire series all at once, because these 5-star ratings are just getting repetitive.
In this book, Beverly Cleary broadens Ramona's world and introduces some more serious concepts. Ramona's father loses his job, and thanks to Beezus, Ramona learns that her father's smoking is a terrible habit. Not unexpectedly, Beverly Cleary is able to frame these issues from Ramona's perspective. Ramona may not understand money matters, but she understands that when her father isn't working, he's always cross, and that, in turn, affects the entire family's dynamics.
She also doesn't know exactly why smoking is bad, but she just wants to save her father's life. Isabelle likes that Beezus and Ramona work together to get their father to stop smoking - they don't always get along, but sometimes, they do.
In this book, Beverly Cleary broadens Ramona's world and introduces some more serious concepts. Ramona's father loses his job, and thanks to Beezus, Ramona learns that her father's smoking is a terrible habit. Not unexpectedly, Beverly Cleary is able to frame these issues from Ramona's perspective. Ramona may not understand money matters, but she understands that when her father isn't working, he's always cross, and that, in turn, affects the entire family's dynamics.
She also doesn't know exactly why smoking is bad, but she just wants to save her father's life. Isabelle likes that Beezus and Ramona work together to get their father to stop smoking - they don't always get along, but sometimes, they do.
saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition
4.0
Ramona, continuing to learn, and grow up while getting into various shenanigans.
abigailbat's review against another edition
5.0
This is my favorite of the Ramona books and I have read it a gazillion times. Stockard Channing does a nice job with the narration, despite the fact that I don't care for the voices she chose for Ramona or Beezus. She brings out the humor in the title nicely and has a pleasant speaking voice.
More on the blog: http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/12/audiobook-review-ramona-and-her-father.html
More on the blog: http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/12/audiobook-review-ramona-and-her-father.html
lpm100's review against another edition
5.0
A parent's review
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
This book is too funny, and it is most definitely going on my kids reading list.
I read it years ago as a child, and recently saw it in the library by happenstance, and something possessed me to get it again to reread.
As an adult/parent, it's probably a lot funnier to me than it was when I was a child. (That is true of many of these Newbery honor books. A lot of them are written for children, but making use of humor that is more appropriate for adults.)
Beverly Cleary's series are good because they contain children being children and parents being parents. (Not children behaving like 40 year old thrice divorced anguished alcoholics.)
Verdict: Recommended at the new price.
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
This book is too funny, and it is most definitely going on my kids reading list.
I read it years ago as a child, and recently saw it in the library by happenstance, and something possessed me to get it again to reread.
As an adult/parent, it's probably a lot funnier to me than it was when I was a child. (That is true of many of these Newbery honor books. A lot of them are written for children, but making use of humor that is more appropriate for adults.)
Beverly Cleary's series are good because they contain children being children and parents being parents. (Not children behaving like 40 year old thrice divorced anguished alcoholics.)
Verdict: Recommended at the new price.
teachermaryreads's review against another edition
5.0
I love this book so much. This is the book where Ramona really starts to get to know herself. I love the way her father's character is developed and the way Cleary relates the experience of being worried about money without beating the reader over the head with it.
I still have the copy of this book that I read as a kid and it was so wonderful to get back to the RIGHT illustrations. Ramona reminds me more of myself at that age when she looks like her plain, mousey little self. I swear I had that exact haircut and tendency to tell a joke one too many times.
I still have the copy of this book that I read as a kid and it was so wonderful to get back to the RIGHT illustrations. Ramona reminds me more of myself at that age when she looks like her plain, mousey little self. I swear I had that exact haircut and tendency to tell a joke one too many times.
chutten's review against another edition
4.0
Ms Cleary's books never seem to diminish in quality or their ability to make every-day family stuff read as the most important things ever to happen to a precocious child.