Book Reference #2

Referenced in Barwis Methods: “Boing-Boing”

“I tell him that it feels like Susan’s curls in the Ramona Quimby book series.  He laughs and has no idea what I am talking about. Then I tell him all about Ramona Geraldine Quimby and how she was my favorite character in a book when I was a kid.  When I was a girl (probably about 25 years ago) I really liked Ramona Quimby books (Beverly Cleary wrote them) and  in one of those books she talked about a fellow student in Ramona’s class who had curly hair.  The student’s name was Susan.  I couldn’t remember Susan’s last name but I remember Remora calling them “boing-boing curls” because they would bounce up and down when she walked and Ramona always wanted to pull the curls. I said my legs kind of feel like that. I straighten them out and they ‘boing” back and I’m not sure why. I do know it kind of hurts.”

Ramona pulled Susan’s (her last name was Kushner) curls in the book Ramona the Pest and got suspended from Kindergarten.

I REALLY have to re-read these books!