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Niagara Falls Public Library

StoryWalks®

Niagara Children’s Planning Council, with leadership provided through the Families are Strong, Stable and Connected Pillar and the Niagara Falls Public Library, is thrilled to be bringing a variety of StoryWalk® Installation Kits to municipalities across the Niagara region.

A StoryWalk® is an opportunity for children to experience reading a book while walking through a park, trail or neighborhood. StoryWalks® promote literacy and outdoor physical activity. Additionally, they foster community involvement and parent engagement. Children of all ages may experience a StoryWalk® with family members or caregivers by following an outdoor path of large, laminated pages from an illustrated story. The pages also contain questions and reading cues to encourage discussion, predictions and to strengthen children’s emergent literacy development.

The StoryWalk® Installation Kits feature expertly selected children’s literature available in both English and French. They contain the supplies necessary for organizations, community groups and individuals to arrange a StoryWalk® at a local outdoor location. In return, we ask individuals borrowing the kit to provide feedback in order to advise us on the ways in which the kits have been utilized. Additionally, organizations and individuals may advertise their StoryWalk® date and location through the Niagara Falls Public Library website, should the installation be open to the public.

Resources

Take a StoryWalks®

We are pleased to announce that Storywalks are able to be booked once again!

  • Storywalks can only be picked up and dropped off at the Victoria Avenue Library during open hours.
  • Storywalks go out for three weeks.

Questions can be emailed to programming@nflibrary.ca 

English Storywalks®

French Storywalks®

* The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg Hubbard Library.

Niagara Children’s Planning Council is made up of the following organizations: A Child’s World, District School Board of Niagara, Family and Children’s Services Niagara, Niagara Indigenous Children’s Planning Council, Niagara Catholic District School Board, Niagara Region Children’s Services, Niagara Region Public Health, YMCA of Niagara, Rosalind Blauer Centre for Child Care, Ontario Early Years Centres, Pathstone Mental Health, Early Childhood Community Development Centre, Centre de Santé Communautaire, Port Cares, Strive Niagara, Comite de la petite enfance, Bethlehem Housing and Support Services, Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre, Niagara Falls Public Library, Brock University, Niagara College, Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region, Contact Niagara, Heartland Forest, Niagara Children’s Centre.