Summer Travel StoryWalks comes to the OWWL Library System, which includes libraries in Wyoming and Livingston County, to provide patrons with an outdoor reading experience.
Nine different libraries in Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming, and Livingston County share 10 different stories.
StoryWalk breaks down illustrated children’s books and arranges them page by page along a passage or path. Community members can move between panels and enjoy the story displayed on the board.
The OWWL Libraries Traveling Summer Story Walks feature a total of 10 books, each spending a week in each location. The shortest story is 17 panels and the longest story is 25. The story stays in the library for a week and then rotates to another library.
StoryWalks have been popular over the last two years and can be found in many libraries in permanent and temporary settings. StoryWalks promotes early literacy and community health and wellness and is enjoyable for all age groups.
Nine libraries across the four counties are the Arcade Free Library, the Cordelia A. Green Library in Castile, and the Pike Library in Wyoming County. Avon Free Library and Mount Morris Library in Livingston County. Goham Free Library, Honey Oai Public Library, Newark Public Library.
Erin Robinson, director of the Arcade Free Library, said:
“We had some families plan a trip to the library around Story Walks and arrived early in story time so they could walk the pages and enjoy the first two books.” She said.
Suzanne Macaulay, program director of the OWWL system, said she had about 200 manually created panels for the project.
“It’s really exciting to see people using it,” McCawley said.
McCawley also said he would stop by every week to replace the story and rotate it.
Rebecca Connolly, Library Director of Cordelia A. Green, was excited to use their large garden to offer this program.
According to Connolly, many kids struggle to sit still and don’t feel like traditional readers, but programs like storywalks require physical activity while reading. You can reach the children who may be.
According to Connolly, this will give more readers access to reading.
Rebecca Budinger-Mulhearn, director of Avon Free Library, said the storywalk on the move allows the library to test drive the storywalk without having to permanently install it in the community.
Budinger-Mulhearn said the library is under construction to redo the previous steps to be ADA compliant.
“This is the first time we’ve done something like this,” said Budinger-Mulhearn.
The children’s entrance to the library is behind the library, but Budinger-Mulhearn said he saw families and even the elderly stop reading the story.
“I think it’s very sweet because adults should also read books for children,” Budinger-Mulhearn said with a laugh.
According to Budinger-Mulhearn, this program helps children understand the process of chronology by tracking the number of illustrations, stories, and how people can read outdoors.
The StoryWalk project was created by Anfergerson of Montpilia, Vermont and was developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
Formerly known as the Pioneer Library System, the OWWL Library System oversees the operation of all 42 public libraries, known as the OWWL Library, across the counties of Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming, and Livingston.
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