Mrs. Griggs

Mrs. Griggs (no first name revealed) was a fictional character in the book Ramond the Brave by Beverly Cleary.

Mrs. Griggs is the first grade teacher at Glenwood School, a fictitious school in Portland, Oregon. She was the first grade teacher of both Beezus Quimby and her younger sister, Ramona Quimby. She was often known for not yelling at her students, and was never excited and never strayed from her teaching plans.

Ramona didn't get along with her, because she felt that she didn't understand her. Among Mrs. Griggs' situations was she praised Susan's paperbag owl, which she had copied from Ramona's own owl. This so infuriated Ramona that she destroyed her own owl; and told Mrs. Griggs that she didn't care for owls, but hid her hurt. Mainly because she wasn't going to tell Mrs. Griggs what happened, though she really wanted to. However, Mrs. Griggs would have thought she was tattling, and her inevitable line would have been, "Ramona, nobody likes a tattletale."

Then at the end of the week, Ramona was so enraged at Susan, that she deliberately destroyed her owl. For this, Mrs. Griggs made Ramona apologize to her in front of the whole class, after that ordeal, Susan's smug look made Ramona angry and she whispered even though you are a copycat who stinks!

At the end of the book, Mrs. Griggs finally chose Ramona to lead the flag salute, but discovered she didn't have one of her shoes. Ramona explained what happened, and this time, the students were sympathetic, considering that she had been scared by a big dog, and had thrown her shoe at it. The dog's owner called it in, and Ramona went to pick it up. They had parted friendly.