Animal Tales: Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes

Our Park Naturalists and volunteers come to your local library each month to share a story about a native animal and lead a craft or activity. These programs are FREE to attend and are most appropriate for preschool to upper elementary age children. Advance registration is required by contacting your library.  

July: Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes by Margie Palatini

In Palatini’s humorous take on Aesop’s “The Fox and the Grapes,” Fox enlists Bear, Beaver, Porcupine, and Possum to help grab some out-of-reach fruit. Concocting an elaborate scheme, Fox ignores the other animals’ simpler, sounder solutions. Moser’s considered watercolors humorously show realistic-looking creatures displaying human responses, from calculating to exasperated.

Clayton – Liberty Township  

• Call library at (317) 539-2991 to register in advance 
• Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.  
• June 6, Aug. 1

Monrovia  

• Call library at (317) 996-4307 to register in advance  
• Tuesdays at 1 p.m.  
• June 6, Aug. 1

Brownsburg  

• Call library at (317) 852-3167 to register in advance  
• Wednesdays at 4 p.m.  
• May 3, June 7, July 5, Aug. 2

Jamestown 

• Call library at (765) 676-6190 to register in advance  
• Thursdays at 3 p.m. 
• May 4, June 8, July 6, Aug. 3

Roachdale

• Call library at (765) 522-1491 to register in advance  
• Thursdays at 4 p.m. 
• June 8, July 6, Aug. 3

Avon 

• Call library at (317) 272-4818 to register in advance  
• Fridays at 2 p.m. 
• May 5, June 9, July 7, Aug. 4

Danville 

• Call library at (317) 745-2604 to register in advance  
• Fridays at 4 p.m. 
• May 5, June 9, July 7, Aug. 4