During our trip to Winnipeg last weekend, we visited the Manitoba Children’s Museum. One of the highlights for me was seeing that every single exhibit area had picture books scattered around that tied into the theme of that exhibit – the train that you could climb on had transportation books, the exhibit that let you climb through a bunch of “pasta” tubes had food books and, as pictured below, the “clock” exhibit had books on time.
It made me wonder why a museum can promote literacy in this way but libraries do such a poor job of doing the opposite – we have the books and the knowledge of literacy but do we have interactive, hands-on libraries that are simply *fun* and which parents want to bring their children to again and again?
