The Huggins or Ramona Book

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There's a moment in one of the Huggins or Ramona books where some older kids here Ramona call her Beezus and they start yelling, Jesus, Beezus. And that also is very real. They live with their family on Click-A-Tat Street, which is a great name for a street. She can see Mount Hood out the window of her school.

We've talked about National Treasure Beverly Cleary on the show before, but we haven't spent time with her most indelible character, one Ramona Quimby. Recorded on the eve of Craig's new-dadhood, we're joined by TV critic and parenting expert Kathryn VanArendonk to discuss yard apes, sick days, and how differently the book hits from the other side of the parent/kid divide.

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