Walking With Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland

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Walking with Ramona explores the streets, schools, characters and neighbourhoods of beloved author Beverly Cleary's Portland. With this newest and most unusual Portland guidebook, readers can walk the very sidewalks Beverly walked and climb the very school steps that Beverly climbed. You'll see the grocery parking lot where Ramona got stuck in the mud, the park lawn where Henry Huggins hunted nightcrawlers and the real Portland street that became Klickitat Street, their fictional home. A truly alterantive literary travel guide that will thrill fans of Ramona.

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Advance Praise for Walking with Ramona
Hugely impressive, absolutely enriching, and downright inspiring. Kudos to Laura for writing a book that would make Ramona proud! --Bart King, The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Girl Stuff, and An Architectural Guidebook to Portland

Ramona would be amazed by this book! I love seeing where she lived and learned. --Ginnie Cooper, former Multnomah County Librarian and resident of Klickitat Street

Praise for other walking guides by Laura O. Foster
Skillfully combines neighborhood history and architectural description with keen observations guaranteed to capture a walker's imagination. --The Oregonian

Foster makes each entry come alive with historical background and keenly drawn observations. --Alice Joyce, Booklist

An ideal guide, full of fun information. --SciTech Book News

Author Bio

Laura O. Foster writes about the Pacific Northwest. Her Portland-based books explore the citys geology, architecture, neighborhoods, and human and natural history. She lives in Portland, OR with her family.