Ramona Quimby, Age 8

After reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to Adam and Noah, we moved on to Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. I found I enjoyed this novel more than the one I had just read them, but for them it was the opposite. Noah kept asking when it was going to get funny like 'the Fudge books' which they have continued to read with Alan. In my memory this book was funny so I had told them it would be, but though it is full of humor, it's not ha-ha funny, which is what they wanted. So perhaps I had set it up to fail by offering them a description from my memory of reading it almost thirty years ago. But there is something completely charming to me about Ramona and Beverly Cleary's writing. I'd go so far as to say that this book is timeless, as I enjoyed this book just about as much as I did when I was a child.