Storyland™ transforms seven beloved and award-winning picture books — The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Snowy Day, Where’s Spot?, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Abuela, and Tuesday into three-dimensional play and bi-lingual learning environments that highlight the six pre-reading skills defined by the Public Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children.
Storyland™ transforms seven beloved and award-winning picture books — The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Snowy Day, Where’s Spot?, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Abuela, and Tuesday into three-dimensional play and bi-lingual learning environments that highlight the six pre-reading skills defined by the Public Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children.
What to Expect
Step into the pages of beloved children’s books and enter a world of early literacy adventures! Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites™ immerses children and adults in favorite picture books. Designed for children from birth through eight years old and adults, Storyland engages visitors in storylines and literacy activities that lead them to discover that it’s never too early to develop a love of reading.
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The Stories of Storyland
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the six pre-reading skills defined by the Public Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children?
This is a great question, we’re so glad you’re curious to know! They are… 1. Print Motivation – enjoy and take interest in books and reading, 2. Print Awareness – notice print and symbols in the world, 3. Letter Knowledge – identify letters by shape, name, and sound; 4. Narrative Skills – understand, tell and re-tell stories; 5. Vocabulary – recognize, understand, and use words to describe objects and feelings; and 6. Phonological Awareness – listen to and play with the smaller sounds and rhythms in words and sentences.
When can I come to play in this exhibit?
This exhibit will be open at GCM from June 11, 2022 through September 11, 2022. And this summer, you can play at GCM 7 days a week! From Memorial Day, May 30, to Labor Day, September 5 GCM will be open on Mondays, 10am-5pm.
Our summer hours will be Monday – Friday, 10am-5pm | Saturday, 10am-6pm | Sunday, 1-6pm.
I’m a GCM Member, can I visit this exhibit for free?
Yes! Playing in this exhibit is included in General Admission and GCM Memberships. Become a member today to play in this exhibit as many times as you want! When purchasing tickets online as a GCM Member, please make sure you are registered and logged in to our ticketing service with the exact information that is listed on your Membership.
Do you offer discounts on admission for those with EBT/SNAP benefits?
Yes! GCM is part of the Museums for All program that helps those who receive EBT/SNAP benefits visit GCM for a minimal fee for up to four people with the presentation of a SNAP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. Learn more about that program here.
What to Expect
Step into the pages of beloved children’s books and enter a world of early literacy adventures! Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites™ immerses children and adults in favorite picture books. Designed for children from birth through eight years old and adults, Storyland engages visitors in storylines and literacy activities that lead them to discover that it’s never too early to develop a love of reading.
Buy Tickets Sign Up for Emails Frequently Asked Questions
The Stories of Storyland
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Children can explore Peter Rabbit’s verdant world, rich with opportunities for building vocabulary and narrative skills while having fun with patterns, words, and dramatic play. Enter and explore Peter’s family home and tuck Peter in for a bedtime story, sort oversized vegetables in Mr. McGregor’s garden, and more.
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Welcome to Peter’s wintry world where a young boy explores his neighborhood after a fresh snowfall. Have the opportunity to build print and sound awareness as you build a snowperson, and explore wintry sounds and words. Follow Peter’s footprints through the urban snowscape, manipulate icicles, bells, and chimes; build snow people, and more.
Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill
Babies and young toddlers can experiment with busy wall interactives with their friend Spot the dog. Adults can get tips about cultivating pre-reading skills in very young children. Read books from the series together, trace engraved letters and push primary color buttons, play a miniature piano, pet Spot’s fur, and more.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Get a mouse-eye view of super-sized elements with this book come to life, like a big glass of milk that encourages children to create new and rhyming words by matching letter magnets to word trunks. Kids can even sit next to Mouse on a gigantic replica of the book’s Super Beauty Powder box and more.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Young children can explore the alphabet and letter and sound awareness while navigating three tropical islands featured in this classic children’s book. Families will also enjoy creating rhythms with steel drums while playing along with the rhythm of the story. Kids can sort and match uppercase and lowercase letters, climb and play amongst giant letter sculptures, and more.
Abuela by Arthur Dorros
Visit Rosalba and Abuela’s intricate, jewel-like city for opportunities to imaginatively explore patterns while building narrative skills, vocabulary, and print and sound awareness. Fly along with Rosalba and Abuela to Lady Liberty, through the park, and to the store all while playing with interactives like postcards, a tourist telescope, and more.
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Children can sharpen their narrative skills and vocabulary by delivering news from inside a TV, searching for hidden frogs, moving the hands of the clock tower to trigger croaks, and creating the sounds of a swamp in Tuesday, a story about a town mysteriously visited by flying frogs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the six pre-reading skills defined by the Public Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children?
This is a great question, we’re so glad you’re curious to know! They are…
1. Print Motivation – enjoy and take interest in books and reading.
2. Print Awareness – notice print and symbols in the world.
3. Letter Knowledge – identify letters by shape, name, and sound.
4. Narrative Skills – understand, tell and re-tell stories.
5. Vocabulary – recognize, understand, and use words to describe objects and feelings.
6. Phonological Awareness – listen to and play with the smaller sounds and rhythms in words and sentences.
When can I come to play in this exhibit?
This exhibit will be open at GCM from June 11, 2022 through September 11, 2022. And this summer, you can play at GCM 7 days a week! From Memorial Day, May 30, to Labor Day, September 5 GCM will be open on Mondays, 10am-5pm.
Our summer hours will be Monday – Friday, 10am-5pm | Saturday, 10am-6pm | Sunday, 1-6pm.
I’m a GCM Member, can I visit this exhibit for free?
Yes! Playing in this exhibit is included in General Admission and GCM Memberships. Become a member today to play in this exhibit as many times as you want! When purchasing tickets online as a GCM Member, please make sure you are registered and logged in to our ticketing service with the exact information that is listed on your Membership.
Do you offer discounts on admission for those with EBT/SNAP benefits?
Yes! GCM is part of the Museums for All program that helps those who receive EBT/SNAP benefits visit GCM for a minimal fee for up to four people with the presentation of a SNAP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. Learn more about that program here.
Sponsorships
Sponsoring this exhibit will fund 3 GCM programs including Storyland, our Family Play Project, and GCM@Home!
If you’re interested, please email giving@glazermuseum.org.
Show your family’s support of literacy with a Family Sponsorship, now available!
Locally Sponsored by The Hettinger Family Foundation