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Ramona Quimby

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ramona-Quimby-Turns-50.mp3 Author Ramona Caponegro Air Date 6/30/2005 Ramona Quimby Transcript “‘I am not a pest,’ Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus” in the opening line of Beverly Cleary’s Ramona the Pest, a line that I frequently repeated throughout grade school myself. Sharing the same first name with Ramona Quimby ensured […]

Family Stories

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Family-Stories-from-the-Past.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/24/2005 Family Stories Transcript In Good Wives: A Story for Girls, Louisa May Alcott has Jo March declare “I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world,” and stories such as Good Wives and Little Women, in which the action and interactions center […]