StoryWalk®

Welcome!

A StoryWalk is an outdoor reading experience that encourages children and families to read and move. At its core, this program is about kids, reading, getting outside, and connecting with family.

Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library has partnered with Redbank Valley Trail Association to bring you our Story Book Trail for the fourth year. Our permanent installation has us moving from the Sligo Spur of the Redbank Valley Trail just off State Rt. 861 in Madison Township.

The best part of our StoryWalk® is how it brings together community partners to make something wonderful happen. It’s really exciting for all of us.

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2026

Joanne Hosey, Deb Clark, Patty Henry, Penny (Jane’s niece!), Deb Lerch, and Jane Montgomery

2025

Marcia Nageotte, Deb Clark, and Joanne Hosey (other helpers not pictured: Jane Montgomery, Deb Lerch, Rachel Campbell, Roger Crick, and Dave Hosey)

2024

Deb Clark, Marcia Nageotte, Jillian Porter, Deb Lerch, and Jane Montgomery

Deb Clark, Marcia Nageotte, Jillian Porter, Joanne Hosey, and Jane Montgomery

Jillian Porter, Joanne Hosey, and Jane Montgomery

Dave Hosey, Greg Fraser, and Dan Stewart

2023

2021

Location: Rimersburg trailhead located at SR861 trail crossing, across from Mill Alley Road, which leads into Rimersburg. Parking for about 8 cars.

Current Trail Book

The Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library’s 2026 spring/summer StoryWalk® title is Over in the Forest: A woodland animal nature book by Marianne Berkes.

Learning to count is fun while finding adorable baby animals in their natural habitats! Discover beavers that build, turkeys that scratch, and skunks that spray, and begin to find a place in your heart for many of the other animals in the forest. Explore the world around you, and inspire a bond with nature through curiosity and wonder!

Parents, teachers and gift givers will find:

A book filled with baby animals from the forest habitat.

Rhythmic text that makes learning fun!

A seek and find on every page to add to the learning!

The creative art will inspire many projects at home and at school. Kids will count baby animals as they learn about forests and the animals in the forest habitat in this bestselling book for young explorers!

Below are titles from our previous StoryWalks®:

This project is made possible by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries.