Ramona finds the ring
Ramona Forever. By Beverly Cleary. Puffin, 1986, 155 pp. < $5.49 (paperback). Adventures at Bangotcher Junction. By Jill Morris and Mary Lancaster. Puffin, 1986. 90pp. $4.95 (paperback). Ramona is aged about nine. She has an older sister, a mother and a father, and a cat called Picky-Picky. The book has lots of little stores about things that happen to Ramona. In one story she is a bridesmaid at Aunt Bea’s wedding. They lose the ring, but Ramona finds it stuck on the bride’s high-heel shoe. In another story Ramona is not allowed into the babies’ ward because she is under 12. Her big sister is allowed in though. “Adventures at Bangotcher Junction” is about a bat and a possum, and a gnone who comes to take them on aventures. In one of these they rescue a small creature from outer space who has been left all alone on a dying planet. The book has lots of Australian animals in it.
I liked both books, but thought the second one was the best. It had good drawings, too. — Reviewed by Kate Finnerty, aged 9.
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Press, 13 December 1986, Page 28
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