Ramona Quimby’s Portland

Did you love Beverly Cleary's books too? Klickitat Street is a real place! We binge-read the Ramona Quimby series, then went on a walking tour of the Portland neighborhood where the stories are set.

My story is in The Seattle Times here.

Grant Park, where Ramona held her zero-teenth birthday party.
The Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden turns into a spray park in the summer. That's Ribsy, Henry Huggins' dog.
We made a new free toy, Ramona-inspired tin can stilts. You know it's a hit when they fight over whose turn it is.
I saw this lady at a Little Free Library a few doors down from Beverly Cleary's childhood home. She drives around stocking Little Free Libraries with kids books. I think Beverly Cleary would have liked that.
A mosaic at the entrance of Beverly Cleary's elementary school, now named in her honor.
The entrance the author, then Beverly Bunn, would have used at her school.
The parking lot across from the school is where Ramona got her new boots stuck in the mud.
Beverly's childhood home on Hancock Street was the setting of the Quimby's fictional home.
The Quimby family later moved to the north side of Grant Park, to this home.
You can see a horse ring on the curb in front of their house.
This store was the Colossal Market in Cleary's books.
Hollywood Theatre appears in Cleary's books too, under the same name.
Klickitat Street!

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