History YMMV / RamonaQuimby

*** Roberta gets stuck in the kitten penthouse that Ramona has on loan while catsitting. It's scary, but Ramona remains calm, realizing that Roberta can't get out unless she's pacified. So she sings Roberta's favorite rhyme, "The Three Little Kittens" and pulls her baby sister out of the cat holes gently. A subtle but telling display of maturity, ingenuity, and love, showing how far Ramona has come from the BrattyHalfPint she used to be, so long ago.

*** The last chapter finally has Susan facing comeuppance for her snobby and bratty attitude. Ramona had specifically said she didn't want to invite Susan to her party because the girl would ruin it with her "Miss Perfect" attitude. She's proven right when Mrs. Quimby invites Susan against her wishes; Susan takes out an apple after Ramona blows out the candles and says her mother wouldn't let her have any because the cake has germs from Ramona. While Ramona understandably fumes and the kids are briefly grossed out, Daisy takes a big bite out of her slice of cake and says, with a decisive look in her eyes, that it's perfectly fine. This helps the kids regain their spirit, and they call out Susan for being rude. Even though they then comfort Susan for subsequently crying about how no one likes her, and Ramona forgives Susan for being a {{Jerkass}} on realizing how much of it is her mother's influence, it's the only time that she actually faces consequences.

* AccidentalAesop: It's all right to protect yourself if avoiding a stressful situation means refusing to hang out with someone who adores you. Mrs. Quimby tells off Ramona for interrupting Henry and Beezus's checkers game, sending her to her room to think about manners. Later, the Quimbys agree that Ramona doesn't have to hang out at Howie's house because it's not fair that his grandmother scapegoats Ramona for the mischief that Howie's little sister Willa Jean causes. They instead have the girls come home. When Willa Jean calls and begs Ramona to return for after-school playdates, Ramona is portrayed as in the right for politely turning her down.

* AccidentalAesop: It's all right to protect yourself if avoiding a stressful situation means refusing to hang out with someone who adores you. Mrs. Quimby tells off Ramona for interrupting Henry and Beezus's checkers game, sending her to her room to think about manners. Later, the Quimbys agree that Ramona doesn't have to hang out at Howie's house because it's not fair that his grandmother scapegoats Ramona for the mischief that Howie's little sister Willa Jean causes. They instead have the girls come home. When Willa Jean calls and begs Ramona to return for afterschool playdates, Ramona is portrayed as in the right for politely turning her down.

*** Roberta gets stuck in the kitten penthouse that Ramona has on loan while catsitting. It's scary, but Ramona remains calm, realizing that Roberta can't get out unless she's pacified. So she sings Roberta's favorite rhyme "The Three Little Kittens" and pulls her baby sister out of the cat holes gently.

** The scene of a nurse forbidding Ramona from seeing her baby sister and mother in the hospital because "children have contagious diseases" even though Beezus is only a few years older. This causes Ramona to start itching everywhere from the stress and fear that she is a germy girl until a doctor gives a prescription to her father that she needs hugs and kisses. In the 2010s, ''no one'' would be allowed to be in the same room as the mother and baby unless they have a private room because the newborn wards have glass displays for visitors to see them. Both Beezus and Mr. Quimby would be as "contagious" for the newborn.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: When Henry agrees to play Joseph in the Christmas pageant despite being busy doing other things, is he just being agreeable (which would be in character) or is it because Beezus is playing Mary?

** Neither Ramona nor Howie ride his bike with a helmet. Howie is also allowed to ride a unicycle without a helmet or knee pads, which is a problem when he falls and scrapes his legs.

** Shortly after Ramona starts kindergarten, Mrs. Quimby and Mrs. Kemp decide that Ramona and Howie are ready to start walking to school by themselves, despite presumably only being around 5 years old. In this day and age this would never be considered acceptable given how prevalent the fear of child predators is among parents.

** In ''Ramona the Pest,'' the student's have to draw a picture of their house. "Davy's house looked like a clubhouse built by some boys who had a few old boards and not enough nails. It leaned to one side in a tired sort of way."

** In the earlier books, Ramona and Beezus always wear dresses to school, because most schools forbade girls to wear pants at he time they were written. Thanks to ComicBookTime, they eventually do start wearing pants to school around the middle of the series.

* ValuesDissonance:

** In ''Beezus and Ramona,'' which was published in 1955, an exasperated Beezus thinks about how fed up she is with reading Ramona's favorite book (a story about a talking steam shovel) over and over again, commenting to herself that girls aren't supposed to like machinery. This viewpoint probably wouldn't go over very well with modern readers, since it's become much more accepted for girls to like boyish things in the 21st century, and vice versa. For Beezus, she doesn't like how whiny the steam shovel is in the story or having to make the silly growling sound effects while reading it.

* TheWoobie: To some extent, Davy in the first few books. He's slow to learn, and his parents later divorce.
** In ''Ramona the Pest,'' the student's have to draw a picture of their house. "Davy's house looked like a clubhouse built by some boys who had a few old boards and not enough nails. It leaned to one side in a tired sort of way."
** Ramona herself definitely counts as well during her {{Age Appropriate Angst}} moments.

** Although the Quimby parents don't use corporal punishment, some of Mr. Quimby's grandmother's sayings make reference to it ("First time [doing something annoying] is funny, second time is silly, third time is a spanking"). With studies showing the [[https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/12/the-fourth-r/547583/ negative]] [[https://www.handinhandparenting.org/2013/08/whats-the-problem-with-spanking/ effects]] of spanking and similar punishments on children, that wouldn't fly nowadays.

** Neither Ramona nor Howie ride his bike with a helmet. Howie is also allowed to ride a unicycle without a helmet, which is a problem when he falls and scrapes his legs.

** Although the Quimby parents don't use corporal punishment, some of Mr. Quimby's grandmother's sayings make reference to it ("First time [doing something annoying] is funny, second time is silly, third time is a spanking"). With studies showing the negative effects of spanking and similar punishments on children, that wouldn't fly anymore.

** Although the Quimby parents don't use corporal punishment, some of Mr. Quimby's grandmother's sayings make reference to it ("First time is funny, second time is silly, third time is a spanking"). With studies showing the negative effects of spanking and similar punishments on children, that wouldn't fly anymore.

** In ''Beezus and Ramona,'' which was published in 1955, an exasperated Beezus thinks about how fed up she is with reading Ramona's favorite book (a story about a talking steam shovel) over and over again, commenting to herself that girls aren't supposed to like machinery. This viewpoint probably wouldn't go over very well with modern readers, since it's become much more accepted for girls to like boyish things in the 21st century, and vice versa. For Beezus, she doesn't like how whiny the steam shovel is in the story or having to growl about it.
** Neither Ramona nor Howie ride his bike with a helmet. Howie is also allowed to ride a unicycle without a helmet, which is a problem when he falls and scrapes his legs.

* ValuesDissonance: In ''Beezus and Ramona,'' which was published in 1955, an exasperated Beezus thinks about how fed up she is with reading Ramona's favorite book (a story about a talking steam shovel) over and over again, commenting to herself that girls aren't supposed to like machinery. This viewpoint probably wouldn't go over very well with modern readers, since it's become much more accepted for girls to like boyish things in the 21st century, and vice versa.

* ValuesDissonance: In ''Beezus and Ramona,'' which was published in 1955, an exasperated Beezus thinks about how fed up she is with reading Ramona's favorite book (a story about a talking steam shovel) over and over again, commenting to herself that girls aren't supposed to like machinery. This viewpoint probably wouldn't go over very well with modern readers, since it's become much more accepted for girls to like boyish things in the 21st century.

* ValuesDissonance: In ''Beezus and Ramona,'' which was published in 1955, an exasperated Beezus thinks about how fed up she is with reading Ramona's favorite book (a story about a talking steam shovel) over and over again, commenting to herself that girls aren't supposed to like machinery. This viewpoint probably wouldn't go over very well with modern readers, since it's become much more accepted, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses and sometimes even preferred,]] for girls to like boyish things in the 21st century.

* ToyShip: Ramona with both Yardape and Howie. Beezus and Henry in the early books.

** Ramona herself definitely counts as well during her {{Age Appropriate Angst}} moments.

* PeripheryDemographic: Adults. Technically, many kids would be older than Ramona if they're reading about her in her younger years (it's not like kindergartners or first-graders will be the ones reading ''Ramona the Pest'' or ''Ramona the Brave''!). But adults find the books charming and nostalgic.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Averted, ''Ramona and Her Mother'', ''Ramona Quimby: Age 8'' and ''Ramona & Her Father'' are very well known.

* AdaptationDistillation: The ''Film/RamonaAndBeezus'' film takes plot elements from most of the books and keeps all the AgeAppropriateAngst and the drama, although the trailers emphasize the humor.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: When Henry agrees to play Joesph in the Christmas pageant despite being busy doing other things, is he just being agreeable (which would be in character) or is it because Beezus is playing Mary?

* AlterateCharacterInterpretation: When Henry agrees to play Joesph in the Christmas pageant despite being busy doing other things, is he just being agreeable (which would be in character) or is it because Beezus is playing Mary?