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vBeverlyCleary ILLUSTRATED BY Tracy Dockray viiContents 1. Beezus and Her Little Sister 1 2. Beezus and Her Imagination38 3. Ramona and Ribsy69 4. Ramona and the Apples 94 5. A Party at the Quimbys 117 6. Beezuss Birthday 148 About the AuthorOther Books by Beverly Cleary Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher iv1 Beezus andHer Little Sister Beatrice Quimbys biggest problem was her little sister Ramona. Beatrice, or Beezus (as everyone called her, because that was what Ramona had called her when she first learned to talk), knew other nine-year- old girls who had little sisters who went to nursery school, but she did not know anyone with a little sister like Ramona. Beezus felt that the biggest trouble with 1 four-year-old Ramona was that she was just plain exasperating. If Ramona drank lemon-ade through a straw, she blew into the straw as hard as she could to see what would happen. If she played with her finger paints in the front yard, she wiped her hands on the neighbors cat.That was the exasperating sort of thing Ramona did. And then there was the way she behaved about her favorite book. It all began one afternoon after school when Beezus was sitting in her fathers big chair embroidering a laughing teakettle on a pot holder for one of her aunts for Christmas. She was trying to embroider this one neatly, because she planned to give it to Aunt Beatrice, who was Mothers younger sister and Beezuss most special aunt. With gray thread Beezus carefully out-lined the steam coming from the teakettles spout and thought about her pretty young 2aunt, who was always so gay and so under-standing. No wonder she was Mothers favorite sister. Beezus hoped to be exactly like Aunt Beatrice when she grew up. She wanted to be a fourth-grade teacher and drive a yellow convertible and live in an apartment house with an elevator and a buzzer that opened the front door. Because she was named after Aunt Beatrice, Beezus felt she might be l