StoryWalk® is a collaboration with the Sooke Branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library.

Inspired by a movement started in the US, 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 May – June 2024: Otter Doesn’t Know by Andrea Fritz

  • Pages: 32
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • Series: Coast Salish Tales
  • Themes: Coast Salish, Indigenous storytelling, salmon run, fish spawning, asking for help

    Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a salmon and a sea otter who learn it’s ok to say “I don’t know” and to ask for help.    Thuqi’ the sockeye salmon knows it’s time to spawn, but she is lost in the Salish Sea and doesn’t know the way to Sta’lo’, the river. When she asks Tumus the sea otter for help, he doesn’t exactly know either, and he dismisses her questions. But when Tumus becomes lost in some weeds, Thuqi’ shows him that it’s okay not to know something—you can still find a way to help a friend in need.In this original story set in Coast Salish Traditional Territory, author and artist Andrea Fritz uses Indigenous storytelling techniques and art to share the culture and language of the Hul’q’umi’num’-speaking Peoples

    Learn more about Andrea Fritz.

Otter Doesn't Know by Andrea Fritz