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.

March StoryWalk: 

Living in this area we become quite familiar with what it is like to live in a rainy climate. What do you do when it rains? Have you ever wondered what the animals do when it rains?  This month's StoryWalk selection, “When Rain Falls” written by Melissa Stewart, is an engaging look at the way animals in forests, fields, wetlands and deserts behave and interact with their environments on a rainy day. No matter the weather, come take a walk along the StoryWalk trail and see what the animals do in the rain.