KIDS

Explore the Outdoors and Take a StoryWalk®!

For infants-age 9

Get outdoors and enjoy books and nature at our StoryWalks®! Pages of a children's picture book are displayed on signs along a path so that families can read the book, page by page, as they walk. StoryWalks® combine three important elements that promote learning: reading, moving, and enjoying the outdoors.

StoryWalks® are accessible during park hours. For details, please call the host site.

The Republic Branch Library, 921 N. Lindsey Ave., will have StoryWalks® throughout the summer.

May 6-19 Look and Listen by Dianna White Howard Smith Community Park, 408 E. Bumgarner Blvd., Strafford

May 20-June 2 Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis Watershed Center, 2400 E. Valley Water Mill Road, Springfield. This StoryWalk® is along an unpaved path.

June 3-16

A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson

Jackson Street Park, 222 W. Jackson Street, Willard.

June 17-30

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray

Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 4601 S. Nature Center Way, Springfield. This StoryWalk® is along an unpaved path.

June 17-30

Look and Listen by Dianne White

Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park, 2400 S. Scenic Avenue, Springfield.

July 1-14

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

New Site! Developmental Center of the Ozarks, 1545 E. Pythian Street, Springfield.

July 15-28

Stomp by Uncle Ian Aurora

Ash Grove City Park, 300 E. Parkway Street, Ash Grove.

July 29-August 11

Agua, Agüita/Water, Little Water by Jorge Tetl Argueta

Brookline Park, 2696 E. Sawyer Road, Republic. This StoryWalk® is along an unpaved path.

The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.