July 2025Storybook Walk
This summer, 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 encouraged to take a stroll and read the featured story at their own pace.
2025 featured stories
The 2025 Pop-Up Storybook Walk features a new bilingual story called Dragon Jr. Follows the Clues/Dragón Jr. Sigue las Pistas by Graciela Repun. Dragon Jr. Follows the Clues is a story about a little dragon and his ability to see beyond what is right in front of him. His skills come in handy as he joins the biggest competition in his town.
Other featured stories during the 2025 Storybook Walk include:
- Spanish Tortilla/La Tortilla de Papas by Sandra Siemens
- 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 2025 schedule
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk in the following locations during the month of July.
Grants Pass
Saturdays in July
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk on the Grants Pass library grounds during the month of July featuring a rotation of stories.
July 1–7 | downtown Grants Pass
Begin at the Grants Pass Welcome Center (198 SW 6th Street) and follow the path up and down both sides of 6th Street and down G Street to read the story. Maps can be picked up at the Welcome Center during open hours in addition to participating locations. Get a special dragon sticker at the Grants Pass Visitor’s Center while supplies last!
View the walking map. (PDF)
Wednesday, June 25 | 11 am–12 pm | Reinhart Volunteer Park
Visit the newly renovated playground at Reinhart Volunteer Park and find the Dragon Jr. Follows the Clues/Dragón Jr. Sigue las Pistas Storybook Walk from 11 am–12 pm on Wednesday, June 25 in partnership with the City of Grants Pass Parks & Recreation.
Monday, June 23 | 11:30–12:30 pm | Parkside Elementary School Summer Meals Program
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk during lunch time.
Friday, June 27 | 11:30–12:30 pm | Allen Dale Elementary School Summer Meals Program
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk during lunch time.
Williams
Saturday, June 28 | 10 am–2 pm | Herb Pharm Picnic in the Garden
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk at Herb Pharm in Williams during the annual Picnic in the Garden event.
Click here to learn more about events on the farm.
All branches
Find the Pop-Up Storybook Walk on library grounds during the Summer Reading Program featuring a rotation of stories.