Downtown StoryWalk®

Let’s Read We Are Water Protectors!

In conjunction with the Madison Green & Clean, read this Caldecott Award winning book that serves as a call to protect Earth’s water sources and showcases Indigenous efforts to do so around the world.

Our Downtown Storywalk® will be on display from April 27th – May 11th.

The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.

Storywalk Map

Participating businesses are listed below. Walk to each business in numerical order and read the story as you go.

A virtual walking map is also available online.

Thank you to the Madison Area Chamber of Commerce, the Madison Downtown Development Commission, and all of the following businesses for displaying our storyboards!

1. Tons of Toys
2. Harvest Bistro
3. PC Problems
4. Prima
5. The Pink Pear
6. Madison PhotoPlus
7. The Snooki Shop
8. Nature of Reading Bookshop
9. Hat Shop Madison
10. Salvatore Minardi Salon
11. Dewey’s Comic City
12. Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Annex
13. Home Sweet Home
14. Madison Wine Cellar
15. Coldwell Banker
16. Healthy Italia
17. Crowley Cupcakes
18. Madison Bagel Cafe
19. Sugar Rush
20. Gerlach’s Jewelers
21. Cramer’s Carpet One Floor & Home

Walking Directions:
1. Start at Tons of Toys on the Corner of Central Ave and Main St and walk toward Green Village Rd (you’ll pass boards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10!)
2. After reading board 10, turn around and backtrack until you reach the intersection of Green Village Rd and Main Street. Cross Main Street and read the next two boards at Dewey’s Comic City (11) and at the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Annex (12)
3. Turn right onto Main Street and walk back toward Waverly Place (you’ll pass boards 13, 14, 15, and 16).
4. Turn right onto Waverly Place and look for board 17 at Crowley Cupcakes and board 18 at Madison Bagel Cafe!
5. Cross Waverly Place and look for board 19 at Sugar Rush.
6. Turn right onto Main Street and find the last two boards at Gerlach’s Jewelers and Cramer’s Carpet One Floor & Home!
Congratulations, you did it!