StoryWalks and Story Trails

About

The Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled would like to help libraries and communities ensure that their StoryWalks and Story Trails are accessible to all individuals.
We can provide both Braille and Audio formats for your StoryWalk/Story Trail.

“The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.”  For more information: https://www.kellogghubbard.org/storywalk

Audio

A link to the StoryWalk edition audio recording will be sent to your library.  It will take eligible individuals to the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled’s catalog. Individuals will login to their account for BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) to access the audio.  Eligible individuals can gain access to BARD through our library.

The StoryWalk audio edition features chimes so the listener knows when to pause and when to start the audio as they move to each page of the book.

Here is snippet from the StoryWalk edition of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems narrated by one of our volunteer narrators.

**  The Chafee Amendment enables libraries and other agencies serving the blind and print disabled to create in an accessible format works copyrighted in the United States without express permission. However, the recording must be for the exclusive use of eligible individuals. Public libraries are advised to confer with their legal counsel as to the applicability of the Chafee Amendment regarding the creation, use, or distribution of copyrighted materials in an accessible format. Violation of the Copyright Act can result in a copyright holder seeking legal remedies.  

**  Our library is creating StoryWalk audio editions and making them available to eligible borrowers through BARD to ensure access and to ensure our library, which is an agency that creates works in accessible format, continues to comply with copyright.

Braille

Once your order is placed, one of our library staff members will follow up with you to determine what braille format is needed to best fit with your StoryWalk.

Images of Braille Options and Descriptions

Braille can be provided to libraries in two different formats.  One is hard copy braille which is braille embossed on paper just like a braille book.  The second format is a braille embossible which are plastic sheets containing tactile braille dots on one side and a sticky surface on the other side so it can be used like a sticker.  The embossible with the braille is added right over a sturdy clear plastic 9″x11 1/2″ sheet.  The clear plastic sheet can then be used at each of the StoryWalk stations/stops so the braille on the clear plastic sheet will match the page at the station/stop.

Ordering

Title List

A list of titles available with StoryWalk editions in audio and braille formats can be found in the Library’s Online Catalog  

Here are some of the titles available with StoryWalk edition audio and braille:  

• Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
• The Bear In My Family by Maya Tatsukawa
• Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd
• Beyond the Pond by Josephy Kuefler
• Chicka Chicka 1,2,3 by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson
• Don’t Hug Doug (he doesn’t like it) by Carrie Finison
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• Don’t Wake Up the Tiger by Britta Techntrup
• Dozens of Doughnuts by Carrie Finnison
• The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems
• Find Fergus by Mike Boldt
• Five Fuzzy Chicks by Diana Murray
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Hey, Who Made This Mess? by Primo Gallanosa
• Hiking Day by Anne Rockwell
• How I Met My Monster by Amanda Noll
• I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll
• In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
• Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn by Shannon Hale
• Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
• The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt
• Let’s Celebrate! by Kate DePalma
• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
• The Mitten by Jan Brett
• Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
• The Napping House by Audrey Wood
• Not Now, Cow by Tammi Sauer
• One of These is Not Like the Others by Barney Saltzberg
• One-osaurus, Two-osaurus by Kim Norman
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• Pig the Elf by Aaron Blabey
• Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey
• The Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems
• Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
• The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis
• Sheepish (wolf under cover) by Helen Yoon
• Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright
• Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
• Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Campler
• The Thankful Book by Todd Parr
• The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
• Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres
• We Walk Through the Forest by Lisa Ferland
• The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith
• Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

If you don’t see the title you need on this list, please complete the Order form.

Order Form for StoryWalk/Story Trail Audio and Braille