...good. where is she, I can't see her anywhere here...
...........she's preparing. for our debut in the realm. sir, i feel as if i can speak for the rest of us when i say that your sister is starting to lose what made her worthy...
.......well, you know... i do have another sister........
Quote:It occurred to Cleary (while writing Henry Huggins) that all of the characters she had created thus far had no brothers or sisters. "Someone should have a sibling," she wrote in My Own Two Feet, "so I tossed in a little sister to explain Beezus's nickname. When it came time to name the sister, I overheard a neighbor call out to another whose name was Ramona. I wrote in "Ramona," made several references to her, gave her one brief scene, and thought that was the end of her.
Little did I dream, to use a trite expression from books of my childhood, that she would take over books of her own."