This show emphasizes the light drama found in the books over the light humor, and is most heavily based on Ramona Quimby, Age 8, but with a few episodes drawing on Ramona and Her Mother and Ramona Forever too. The series has been made into a short-lived TV show in Canada, simply called Ramona and starring a young Sarah Polley in the title role. In 2006, new editions of all eight books were published with illustrations by Tracy Dockray, followed in 2013 by new editions with pictures by Jacqueline Rogers. Later editions of the first two books also featured new cover art by Tiegreen. After Darling's death in 1970, Alan Tiegreen took over as illustrator through 1984's Ramona Forever and also drew the cover art for Ramona's World. The first two books in the series were illustrated, as were most of Cleary's books in the 1950s and 1960s, by Louis Darling. A well-known children's book series by Beverly Cleary about a girl named Ramona Quimby, whose age ranges from 4 to 10 as we see different years of her life.
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