Photo courtesy of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library Combine your family’s love of children’s books and nature by participating in the StoryWalk Project, a Vermont-based initiative that turns reading into a physical activity by posting stories page-by-page along popular walking routes such as nature trails. Besides improving reading skills and promoting exercise, StoryWalk’s books can also stimulate environmental awareness, says the project’s founder Anne Ferguson. Ferguson often schedules seasonal books, such as Leaves by David Ezra Stein, a tale told through the eyes of a young bear that teaches readers about hibernation and the cycle of the seasons, or Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft, to be set up along a trail during time of year that coincides with the book’s theme. She also prepares StoryWalks with ecosystem or wildlife books that match the particular area they are installed, like Over in the Meadow, an old Appalachian folk poem, which was once set up along...