Beverly Cleary School or Glenwood Elementary

Can you believe you are standing in front of Glenwood Elementary? So many of Beverly Cleary's best stories happened on the campus of this school! This is where Henry sold his boxes of ill-gotten bubblegum, where Ramona "boinged" Susan's curls, where Ribsy chases Ramona up the jungle gym during a PTA meeting (PTA does not spell potato chips, by the way.) Scrunched paper bag owls, worm engagement rings, and "dawnzer's lee lights" might be some of the stories that come to mind when you look at this brick school.

Like the neighborhood kids on her Klickitat Street, Beverly would also have walked the short block to get to school, led across the street by a heroic crossing guard in a yellow slicker, just like Henry!

In Beverly's day, the school was known as Fernwood School but it has since been renamed Beverly Cleary School. If you walk along Hancock you can see the old green double doors where Beverly would have entered every day. And if you turn around, you will see a CVS store, the site where the new supermarket was built (and where Ramona lost her beautiful rain boots in the mud.) Can you imagine the children leaning out of the windows to catch a glimpse of the soggy kindergartner?

If you walk up the corner along 33rd Avenue, you will see the school's current entrance as well as a beautiful mosaic. Get close and you can see when the mosaic was created, who donated it, and even who is featured in ir. (Hint: she's not wearing her rainboots!)