QUALITY STORYTENTS
A resource for family, early childhood and community literacy workers
The Storytent started out as an event project. We considered it family literacy promotion with the goal of raising the profile of the importance (and relative ease) of reading to and with children. In an event tent, there is no book borrowing. However, the same philosophy behind method of delivery and relationship building does apply.
Sometimes we looked for an already established event and asked if they wanted to have a Storytent added; sometimes we were asked to bring our Storytent to an event; and sometimes the Storytent was the event. Usually, the storytent was set up outside, but we did try a mall, a gym and inside a large room on a rainy day. The following is a list of‘ events’ that we brought the storytent to: