A review by bkowalczik
Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary

4.0

Beverly Cleary must have been my favorite author when I was eight. Finally I found characters that I related too! An author that understood what it was like to be a real child in the real world. In this book, (how come Ramona gets to stay so young) Ramona is looking for her mother to cherish her, "how no one ever said she was her mother's girl and how she wanted her mother to love her like a little rabbit and how somehow all these feelings had led to pretending to be a fireman." (and wearing her PJ/s under her clothes to school) p 170 Finally "her mother has said the words she had longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm and safe and comforted and oh, how good her mother smelled, so clean and sweet like flowers. Better than any mother in the whole world."