Maine Audubon staff shared facts about the wild turkeys,       young naturalists followed the tracks of Maine wildlife in the Gobble Trail Game,     and created nature journals with the wildlife facts they gathered. Young readers stepped, stopped, and spun to the comic book frames of the books, Benny and Penny in the Big No-No and Benny and Penny in the Toy Breaker  to win a bucket of comic books from Toon Books. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Nest, Nook, & Cranny Trail. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. (No, we do not share your information. “Given the challenges of supporting literacy in this year of social distancing, Curious City StoryWalks has teamed up with the publisher Child’s Play and the StoryWalk sign holder provider Barking Dog Exhibits to produce a… We simply like to verify that you are a literacy-loving bonafide human…) (Your email will NOT be sold or used for other purposes. Curious City offers professionally designed StoryWalk signage. (While many of the kits are addressing librarians and/or teachers, they are perfect for home use!) MISSION To introduce music literacy to school and library settings by providing a ukulele, the user-friendly, starter instrument, for circulation and to represent the benefits of creating music through the inclusion of a children’s book featuring musical characters and plotlines within the ukulele case. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! See the creation of the UkeLit: Rockabilly Goats Gruff!

The result of the brainstorm was the decision to create a Story Hour Kit where readers could become “extraordinary” themselves.
After a year of hard work and creative solutions the City of Portland, Health and Human Services Dept, Public Health Division, the Portland Public Library, and Portland Recreation unveiled a StoryWalk for the picture book, The Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields and illustrated by Scott Nash (Candlewick Press). The only barrier to an increased circulation...  Congratulations to Sarah Dillard!

)CURIOUS CITY DPW is a trademark of Kirsten Cappy DBA Curious City.The swell depiction of our work was illustrated by Each “page turn” has an activity prompt so that walkers can participate in the story and increase their physical activity. About 6 months ago, I heard about this cool thing from my friend Kirsten Cappy at Curious City called StoryWalk. The event was sponsored by The Portland Public Library, Casablanca Comics, and Curious City. For those of you who did not click on the links, here’s the lowdown: a picture book is put, page by page, onto signs and is installed along a walking path. Kirsten Cappy at Curious City has a lot of experience with this! Each sign features a photograph of the open book, allowing the “walker” to view the book as a physical obtainable object, not simply as an image on a sign. Share...Curious City created madcap game for  Geoffrey Hayes the creator of the early reader comic series, Benny and Penny . Trying to find solutions to home learning and literacy-rich play while your children and students are home because of Covid-19?. “As a writer, I’m often asked where I get my ideas, and I usually say that I poke my nose out the front door. Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Free Storywalk from Curious City & Child's Play! In additional to design, Curious City handles all publisher permissions.While Curious City does not print or install the physical signs or sign holders for their designs, we do make some recommendations on vendors and specs.