Valley storywalks 2024
what is a storywalk?
A StoryWalk is a movement and literacy boosting project that places an illustrated children’s book, taken apart and displayed page by page, along a walking route in your community. 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.
The Learning Centre works with community partners to literally take a book apart and display it outside, one page at a time, in the correct order. Each set of pages is then laminated onto a chloroplast backing and placed on a metal stand so as to provide minimal disruption to nature. In this way, people are encouraged to continue walking to find the next page of every book. There is literacy, there is nature, there is movement.
All Storywalk titles are available for purchase through the Laughing Oyster Bookshop.
land acknowledgement
The Comox Valley Lifelong Learning Centre acknowledges that we are on the unceded traditional territory of the K'ὀmoks and Pentlatch First Nation. Our organization believes it is not enough just to acknowledge the keepers of this land. We work to encourage our community to become informed, educated and to actively resist colonialism and neo-colonialism in the many forms it takes, while also respecting and honouring the many forms that resistance adopts in response.
election season storywalk!!!
October 10-19, 2024
Puntledge Park
401 Willemar Ave. along 1st Street
Discover the StoryWalk down the rough paved path, over a small bridge, past the playground along the trail by the river.
Activities
Picnic and playground with garbage cans
Easy forest walking trails
Swimming (no lifeguard)
Salmon spawning river
Dogs on leash
Parking and Access
*Traffic, parking and bathrooms will be impacted at Puntledge Park this summer while the city upgrades a 60-year-old pump station. *
There is free parking along 1st Street on the river side.
There is a bus stop by the park on 1st Street.
Bathrooms will likely be closed for the season. They have put out some Porta-potties. There are no near by public washrooms.
There are no paved trails in the park. The path to the bridge is steep and rough. The greenway is stroller and scooter friendly with limited wheelchair access.
