Throughout the summer, the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust in Bath is offering storybook trails across the region. These temporary exhibits at preserves will showcase nature-themed stories and activities for elementary-aged children and their chaperoning adults.

Kids and families can walk a trail, explore a preserve, and read a children’s book one page at a time. Readers can visit each storybook trail any time of day during their installation, dawn to dusk, according to a news release from the Bath-based land trust.

This month, people can explore the wild wonders of Merrymeeting Fields Preserve on Chops Point Road in Woolwich while reading “Emile and the Field” by Kevin Young. They can walk through shady stands of trees into open fields of wildflowers to read a story all about a boy who cherishes a neighborhood field and all the plants and animals it supports throughout the seasons.

This temporary installation is scheduled to be up from 10 a.m. Saturday, July 23 until Saturday, July 30.

In August, families are welcomed to the woodland trails in Sewall Woods Preserve on Whiskeag Road in Bath to read “Let’s Go on a Hike” by Katrina Liu. They can join the book’s characters — a little boy, his mom and dad, and a corgi named Archie — to discover wonders of nature and the joys of taking a hike.

This temporary installation will be up at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 through Sunday, Aug. 27.

For more information about each event, as well as the storybook trail program as a whole, visit kennebecestuary.org. Closed-toed shoes that can get wet and muddy are recommended. No registration is required, but pictures of a visit would be appreciated and can be emailed to [email protected].

The trust’s education programming are sponsored by The Merrymeeting Bay Trust, Onion Foundation, First Federal Savings, Woodex Bearing Company, and Now You’re Cooking.

For more information, call 207-442-8400.

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