July 2024Storybook Walk
During the month of July, find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk featured in downtown Grants Pass business windows, at the Reinhart Volunteer Park, at each open library branch, and at other locations around Josephine County.
What is a Storybook Walk?
A Storybook Walk is an outdoor reading and walking experience of a children’s book or poem with the “pages” of the book placed in different areas along a walking path. Families are to take a stroll and read the featured story at their own pace.
2024 featured stories
The 2024 Pop-Up Storybook Walk features a new bilingual story called Spanish Tortilla/La Tortilla de Papas by Sandra Siemens. In Spanish Tortilla, Carmen goes to the store to buy eggs, but on the way, she discovers a world of simple beautiful things and forgets about the eggs. She’ll return home time and time again with all sorts of foods and flowers… but not the eggs.
Other featured stories during the 2024 Storybook Walk include:
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- an adapted version of the fable Stone Soup
- an adapted version of the fable I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly
July 2024 schedule
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk in the following locations during the month of July.
Grants Pass
July 1–7 | downtown Grants Pass
Begin at the Grants Pass Museum of Art and follow the path down G Street and up and down 6th street to read the story. Maps can be picked up at all participating Storybook Walk locations and at the Grants Pass Visitor’s Center temporary location at 164 SE G St, Grants Pass. On Friday, July 5 families can make a free craft upstairs at The Hivve after finishing the Storybook Walk.
Tuesday, July 9 | 10:30–11:30 am | Reinhart Volunteer Park
Visit the newly renovated playground at Reinhart Volunteer Park and find the Spanish Tortilla/La Tortilla de Papa Storybook Walk across the parking lot near the fishing pond from 10:30–11:30 am on Tuesday, July 9 in partnership with the City of Grants Pass Parks & Recreation.
Saturday, July 13 | 10 am–4 pm | Grants Pass branch
Find the Harold and the Purple Crayon Storybook Walk in the grass outside the front door during open hours.
Saturday, July 20 | 10 am–4 pm | Grants Pass branch
Find the Stone Soup Storybook Walk in the grass outside the front door during open hours.
Saturday, July 27 | 10 am–4 pm | Grants Pass branch
Find the Spanish Tortilla/La Tortilla de Papa Storybook Walk in the grass outside the front door during open hours.
Monday, July 29 | 10:30–11:30 am | Highland Elementary School Summer Meals Program
Find the Spanish Tortilla/La Tortilla de Papa Storybook Walk in the grass near the the school garden and playground.
Williams
July 10–16
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk on the Williams library grounds during the month of July featuring a rotation of stories.
Wolf Creek
July 19–26
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk on the Wolf Creek library grounds during the month of July featuring a rotation of stories.