Stone Soup Storytime & Waynesboro Community Read 2026: Bud Finds Her Gift

The community is invited to slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the power of story through Stories That Restore, a community read hosted by Waynesboro Public Library in partnership with Stone Soup Books. The program will run from May through July 2026 and invites readers of all ages to explore stories that celebrate reciprocity, gratitude, and our relationship with the natural world.

To kick things off, Stone Soup Books will be reading the children's book Bud Finds Her Gift by acclaimed author Robin Wall Kimmerer!

When young Bud sees people bustling around, intent on their chores and their screens, she is certain they must be doing important things—and she wants to be included. But wise Nokomis, her grandmother, shows her that there is a different way to find belonging, one that relies on stillness and observing the natural world. As Bud discovers the freely given gifts of the Earth, she wonders…