StoryWalk at Lake Wilderness Arboretum

The Lake Wilderness Arboretum and Maple Valley Library have partnered together to bring a StoryWalk to Maple Valley. StoryWalk is an innovative approach to encouraging people of all ages to get out and walk while enjoying wonderful children’s books. With her wealth of experience, Sharon Chastain, the children’s librarian at the Maple Valley Library, selects the best children’s books for this story walk project. Then the pages are installed in frames along the Arboretum’s Main Looping Trail so as you walk, you can read the book one page at a time, all while enjoying being outside. Our hope is that this feature will provide children a new way to see, learn and experience the amazing world that we live in.

January StoryWalk: 

There may not be a more appropriate book then this month's StoryWalk selection, Let's Go Puddling! written by Emma Perry. This delightful story shares the thrill of being outdoors no matter what the weather is doing. The playful watercolor pictures capture the children's exuberant play amid the splashing drops of rain.