The event is from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, March 7 at Lincoln Square in Urbana. Experience more than 30 hands-on literacy related activities, including some from the Urbana Park District.
Volunteers from local Rotary clubs will read stories to children throughout the mall. The Rotaries and Altrusa International of Champaign Urbana are also sponsoring professional storytellers who will appear at the event. Altrusa is also generously sponsoring the featured storyteller, Jasmin Cardenas, a bilingual storyteller from Chicago.
The other storytellers appearing include Kate Kuper, Linda Dust, Dawn Blackman, Mike O’Brien and the Clothespin Puppets, Kim Sheahan, Sue Searing and Kathleen Brinkman.
There will also be an Other Languages Story Area and books will be read in Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Russian.