from The Philadelphia Inquirer
by Katherine Nails
If children were to run, climb, slide, or scale a wall at a normal library, they would likely get annoyed glances from patrons before being hushed by a librarian and carted away by their guardian. Certain branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia, however, are encouraging kids to get active.
The Free Library now has “Play-and-Learn” spaces at three branches — the Cecil B. Moore Library in North Philadelphia, the Whitman Library in South Philadelphia, and the Wyoming Library in Feltonville. The Cecil B. Moore play area was introduced in December, and the two others opened this week.
