Children and adults will soon have a chance to read a book while strolling along the new Story Trail at Oak Harbor’s re-imagined Windjammer Park.

The Oak Harbor Library and Oak Harbor Parks Department teamed up to install 26 sign posts that illustrate a children’s book. Sno-Isle Libraries Executive Director Lois Langer Thompson and other library officials will join city officials in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the splash park and Story Trail at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 29.

The paved trail starts at the new children’s splash park, meanders along the beachfront and ends at the new children’s playground. Story Trail debuts with “Little Wolf’s First Howling” by Laura McGee Kvasnosky.

“Getting kids moving, being outside with their families and encouraging reading is what it’s all about,” Mary Campbell, Sno-Isle Libraries District Manager, said in a press release.

The Story Trail officially opens at 2 p.m. Kvasnosky and her illustrator-sister Kate McGee will both attend, and Kvasnosky will read from her book.

Librarians from the Oak Harbor Library will lead walks along the Story Trail. The Sno-Isle Libraries Bookmobile will also be at the park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Oak Harbor Parks Department staff installed and painted the sign posts and attached brass plaques that show who sponsored each post.

Oak Harbor Community Library staff will change the Story Trail panels several times per year with a new book.