Beezus and Ramona

By: Kate Guérard

Beezus and Ramona

Sisters! I mean they fight, hate each other and sometimes love each other!! What can I say, that’s the life of two young girls! Just like me and my sister, just like Beezus and Ramona....

This is a small book review of my book ‘‘Beezus and Ramona’’. This review includes my opinions, do I like this book and why, all about the characters, the theme, the meaning, the dialog, connections and who is telling the story. Enjoy your reading.

I saw the commercials of the movie on TV and it had the same title as the book. ‘’Beezus and Ramona’’ isn’t that a bit simple? I mean I would have put a more original title than just the name of the two main characters! Maybe ‘’The Contrast Between Two Sisters’’ or something like that. But don’t judge a book by its cover because it was very good, and you’ll find out more by reading my response. This book has two main characters: Beezus and Ramona. Ramona is Beezus’s little sister who always tricks her, plays pranks on her, annoys her, gets her in trouble, etc. She is the kind of girl who never let’s go of anything, wants everything that other people have, and she thinks she is the boss!! Beezus is a lot more mature than her little sister Ramona. She is the oldest, but with her little sister around, she does not feel that she gets any attention. Beezus is lucky to be the oldest but is not lucky to have a little sister like Ramona. I can understand what the characters feel and I can visualize them easily because they were well described in the book.

I think the theme of this story is to accept your family as they are even if they make it difficult for you love them. In this story it is hard for Beezus to love her sister all the time. Well, actually most of the time because Beezus does not like her sister all the time. She hates to say that she does not like Ramona every second of her life because she thinks her mother is going to be mad. Poor Beezus!

In this book, there is not that much dialog. It is mostly a descriptive story with a tiny bit of dialog but when there was dialog, it was good and funny!

A narrator is telling the story. In this book the narrator tells a descriptive text. He also describes every single detail of the setting. The characters went to a lot of different places but I did not have a problem with that because I could tell right away where they went! Like example: I would say in my head, ‘’Oh, now they are at Beezus’s painting lessons!’’ or ‘’Now they are at home with all of Ramona’s friends!’’. I could really connect to this book all along! Right away I could make the connection when I was younger and took painting lessons and my sister was almost always there to pick me up with my parents! I could relate how Beezus found it hard to have a younger sister like Ramona. It was as if I was Ramona and my sister was Beezus. When Beezus said that she did not like her sister all the time, I knew how she felt. I even feel that way again sometimes!!!! I really loved reading a book that I could relate to easily and understand the story. Ramona loved to play hide and seek like me! I even like to play today and I do play with my cousins and my friends! When I play that game sometimes my parents tell me to stop because they don’t have time to find me and they have to work, I totally understand them and even more by reading this book.

From reading this book, I learned that it is hard having a sister that you don’t love all the time and it is even harder to say it in front of other people and that it’s OK because you don’t have to love them all the time. At Beezus’s birthday, her mom knew that something was bothering Beezus so she asked her what it was and Beezus was courageous enough to admit that she did not love Ramona all the time. Of course, Beezus thought that was wrong, like me when I was younger, but to force yourself to love somebody all the time isn’t the clue to every problem. It is all right to not love somebody all the time, I mean, take a break and think about it a second time over again until you find the right key to unlock the door to this problem.

I could connect easily, I could understand everything the narrator or the characters said, the theme is good and that is why I enjoyed reading this book! While reading each sentence of this book, it was as if the narrator was reading the story of my life!! I am very anxious to see the movie that came out not long ago. I don’t have a favourite part in the book Beezus and Ramona because they were all funny, suspenseful and they all caught my attention.