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Terracotta busts of Ramona
These busts by Lee Hunt, are in the children's area of the Gresham Regional Library, Gresham, OR.
First there's the smiling one, with a quote from Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest:
"'I'm not acting like a pest. I'm singing and skipping,' said Ramona, who had only recently learned to skip with both feet. Ramona did not think she was a pest. No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest. The people who called her a pest were always bigger and so they could be unfair."
And then, here's the mad one, with a quote from Ramona and Her Mother:
"Ramona scowled... She was mad and she was going to stay mad. She was mad at Beezus for always being her mother's girl. She was mad at her teacher for telling her mother something (what?) She was mad at her parents for not being upset because she was mad. She was mad at herself for letting it out that she had left her pajamas at school."