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Favorite Children’s Titles Turned Tactile in Public Library Makerspace Program

December 29, 2020
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Favorite Children’s Titles Turned Tactile in Public Library Makerspace Program
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High school students transformed children’s books into 3-D printed creations that could help visually impaired youth experience the stories.

The Mountain Lakes (NJ) Public Library (MLPL) Makerspace has been closed during the pandemic, because the basement space is not safe for staff or patrons. But that hasn’t kept makerspace manager Ian Matty from running programs. One of his fall offerings was a 10-week Build a Better Book project that tasked high school makers with taking favorite children’s books and transforming them into a tactile experience for visually impaired young readers. The books made tactile were If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Brown Bear, Brown, Bear, What Do You See?, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Rainbow Fish.

This tactile book project is a MLPL Makerspace partnership with Build a Better Book, an organization that works with…

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