StoryWalk®: Reading Along the Trails

Background

StoryWalk® is an innovative and delightful way to enjoy reading and the outdoors at the same time. The concept was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vermont, and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.

At the Wells Reserve

We got started with assistance from Let's Go! York County, a program of MaineHealth, who loaned us our first two stories. They were so popular we decided to start producing our own. These are the books we have featured thus far:

• Spring 2020: At One: In a Place Called Maine, by Lynn Plourde and Leslie Mansmann, on the Pilger Trail
• Summer 2020: Hold This!, by Carolyn Cory Scoppettone and Priscilla Alpaugh, on the Pilger Trail
• Winter 2021: Over and Under the Snow, by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Spring 2021: Big Night for Salamanders, by Sarah Lamstein and Carol Benioff, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Summer 2021: Vulture Verses: Love Poems for the Unloved, by Diane Lang and Lauren Gallegos, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Summer 2021: Save the Planet with Sunsquatch, by ReVision Energy, on the Barrier Beach Trail
• Autumn 2021: Hiking Day, by Anne Rockwell with illustrations by Lizzy Rockwell, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Winter 2022: Winter Dance, by Marion Dane Bauer with illustrations by Richard Jones, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Spring 2022: The First Blade of Sweetgrass, by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey with illustrations by Nancy Baker, on the Saw-whet Owl Trail
• Summer 2022: Common Critters, by Pat Brisson with illustrations by Dan Tavis
• Autumn 2022: Outside In, by Deborah Underwood with illustrations by Cindy Derby