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.

August StoryWalk: 

This month’s StoryWalk selection, One-Dog Canoe written by Mary Casanova, is an engaging story about a girl and her dog heading out for a canoe trip together. The canoe ride doesn’t go as planned but laughing aside any inconveniences leads to a fun and entertaining trip. Sometimes things don’t go the way we planned but that doesn’t mean they don’t end up exactly as they should.

So get outside, go for a walk, and read a book.