StoryWalk® is a collaboration with the Sooke Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library.
Inspired by a movement started in the USA, pages from a book are laminated and attached to stakes, then placed throughout the museum site.
Visit the museum grounds between dawn and dusk to read the pages posted at a height ideal for young children to view.
Featured story March 2025: When Emily was Small by Lauren Soloy
- Pages: 44
- Publisher: Tundra Books
- Age Range : 4-8 years
- Copyright Date: 2020
A joyful frolic through the garden helps a little girl feel powerful in this picture book that celebrates nature, inspired by the writings of artist Emily Carr. Emily feels small. Small when her mother tells her not to get her dress dirty, small when she’s told to sit up straight, small when she has to sit still in school.But when she’s in the garden, she becomes Small: a wild, fearless, curious and passionate soul, communing with nature and feeling one with herself. She knows there are secrets to be unlocked in nature, and she yearns to discover the mysteries before she has to go back to being small . . . for now.
About the author:
LAUREN SOLOY has lived on both coasts of Canada, always within reach of the sea. She currently lives in Nova Scotia, in a house that is exactly 100 years older than she is, with her librarian husband, two curious children, an ever-expanding collection of books, two hives of bees and one grumpy cat. She is the author and illustrator of When Emily Was Small, Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem, Tove and the Island with No Address and The Hidden World of Gnomes, as well as the illustrator of I’s the B’y: The Beloved Newfoundland Folk Song and A Tulip in Winter.