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First poster for RAMONA AND BEEZUS

Kate Erbland

by: Kate Erbland
February 15th, 2010

As a bookish wee lass, I have many memories tied up in the literary (almost as many as in the filmic). One of the clearest of those memories involves a little character with a big spirit, Beverly Cleary's irrepressible Ramona Quimby. Let's just say the Ramona books featured a girl nicknamed The Girl with the Boing Boing Curls. And this wee lass had those same boing boing curls. Just imagine twenty tiny hands yanking at your hair, Ramona-style, during an in-class reading of the Ramona books in second grade. I don't want to talk about it anymore, okay?!

Ramona is finally coming to theaters; the big screen take on Cleary's classic characters will star newcomer Joey King as Ramona, Disney star Selena Gomez as big sis Beezus, John Corbett and Bridget Moynahan as the girls' parents, and Ginnifer Goodwin as their Aunt Bea.

Hit the jump to see the cute first poster!

RAMONA AND BEEZUS hits the big screen on July 23. Any other Beverly Cleary fans out there?

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  • tinycatherine

    Ok. the problem I have with this casting is that these girls do not look like sisters. Granted, I am highly biased because the Sarah Polley version was damn good, and I'm not sure a Wizard from Waverly Place can pull Beezus off. I am concerned.

  • tinycatherine

    Ok. the problem I have with this casting is that these girls do not look like sisters. Granted, I am highly biased because the Sarah Polley version was damn good, and I'm not sure a Wizard from Waverly Place can pull Beezus off. I am concerned.

  • Nicole

    Oh boy! I loved the Ramona and Beezus books but I especially loved “Ribsy” and “The Mouse and The Motorcycle.” Stockard Channing read the excellent audio book series of Ramona titles. The first books I can remember my mother reading to me were the Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood. Very old fashioned and not politically correct these days, but in the late 1960s they seemed like the bees' knees to this 6 year old!

  • Nicole

    Oh boy! I loved the Ramona and Beezus books but I especially loved “Ribsy” and “The Mouse and The Motorcycle.” Stockard Channing read the excellent audio book series of Ramona titles. The first books I can remember my mother reading to me were the Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood. Very old fashioned and not politically correct these days, but in the late 1960s they seemed like the bees' knees to this 6 year old!

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