“While Beezus was sewing, Ramona, holding a mouth organ in her teeth, was riding around the living room on her tricycle. Since she needed both hands to steer the tricycle, she could blow in and out on only one note. This made the harmonica sound as if it were groaning oh dear, oh dear over and over again.”
“Her younger sister Ramona, who frequently insists upon exhibiting imaginative habits and eccentricities such as wearing her beloved homemade paper rabbit ears while pretending to be the Easter Bunny.”
“On her head Ramona wore a circle of cardboard with two long paper ears attached. The inside of the ears were colored with pink crayon, Ramona’s work at nursery school. ‘I’m the Easter bunny,’ announced Ramona.”