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.

September StoryWalk: 

This month’s StoryWalk selection, The Girl with Big, Big Questions written by Britney Winn Lee, is a lively picture book about a persistent girl and her quest for knowledge. It celebrates the spirit of curiousity and shows us that asking questions is how we learn and grow – perhaps the perfect book to read as a new school year starts.

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