Allen County Library StoryScape program promotes enjoyable studying

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) – The Allen County Library StoryScape program helps kids develop a lifelong love of studying.

“It is a very special place,” mentioned Rachael King, StoryScape employees member.

The StoryScape program makes use of tales to interact kids and permits them to discover the house independently. It is free for kids age seven and youthful, and no library card is required.

A latest $5,000 donation from the Friends of the Library Foundation has helped fund a number of objects, together with material tiles, a dollhouse and puzzles for the hands-on studying program. The Friends of the Library Foundation has raised cash for StoryScape and different library applications because the early Eighties.

“It makes me feel good. I mean, I feel like this organization is a great supporter of the library,” mentioned Michael Horton, Friends of the Library Foundation board president.

King, who has labored on the library for 16 years, with three years in StoryScape, says the employees researches the way to make the most of every greenback for this system. She mentioned this system makes use of tales to interact kids and lets them discover on their very own.

“We may intend the toy to be used in one particular way, but the kids have an imagination that makes them take it and do something else entirely with it. And that’s magic. I mean, that’s what we want,” King mentioned.

Horton described the Allen County Public Library system as “wonderful.”

“Not all cities are blessed with what we have,” Horton mentioned.