A family-friendly outdoor multilingual program that combines reading with the outdoors kicked off Monday and will go through May 10 at nearby Franklin Park, the Hyde Park Library and Iacono Park in Hyde Park.
The city’s second StoryWalk series will be held at Franklin Park, the Hyde Park Library at 35 Harvard Ave. and Iacono Park at 150 Readville Street and features “Augustus and his Smile” in both English and Spanish as well as library activities.
At the park locations there will be a multicultural “board book” that lets young children explore the area. The board book’s bold illustrations show children the people and animals they will meet, and objects that they will see and hear during the outdoor park experience. Laminated pages from children’s books are attached to wooden stakes and installed along outdoor paths. As visitors stroll through the park, they are directed to the next page in the story.
Multilingual StoryWalk series coming to 10 Boston parks
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Families and caregivers looking for a fun April vacation children’s activity are invited to head outside for the second StoryWalk series in city of Boston parks, available April 20 through May 10.
StoryWalks can be found in Allston, Chinatown, Dorchester, East Boston, Fenway-Kenmore, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale and Roxbury. Each bilingual installation will feature English alongside one of eight additional languages: Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. Visit Boston.gov/StoryWalk for titles, languages and locations.
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department teamed up with the Boston Public Library, the Highland Street Foundation, the New England Patriots Foundation and Xfinity to produce a series of StoryWalk installations in 10 neighborhood parks across the city. After completing the StoryWalk, city of Boston residents a