Action Book Clubs across the country are combining reading with community service—and having fun along the way! In this series, we’re highlighting some of our favorite reading groups. To find out how you can start an Action Book Club of your own visit the program’s...
With concerns around COVID-19 on the rise, we want to share information with you, our valued stewards and supporters, about best practices at Little Free Library book-sharing boxes. First, we encourage you to follow the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and...
The 100,000th Little Free Library is here! We are thrilled to announce that the world’s 100,000th Little Free Library book-sharing box now stands at the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) in Houston. To celebrate this milestone, we are...
Today Disney Plus launched Shop Class, a new competition series featuring teams of young builders, tasked with designing, building, and testing unique creations. In their first episode, teams are challenged with putting their own unique take on Little Free Library...
Action Book Clubs across the country are combining reading with community service—and having fun along the way! In this series, we’re highlighting some of our favorite reading groups. To find out how you can start an Action Book Club of your own visit the program’s...
JUST ANNOUNCED! Our Action Book Club, which combines reading and community service, is launching a new theme: Reading All Around, celebrating the joy of reading and the power of literacy. It’s the perfect time to get a group together and join! Sign up your...
The Little Free Library nonprofit organization (LFL) is pleased to announce the election of Anita Merina as chair of its national board of directors. Merina, who has served on the board since 2015, succeeds retiring chair Monnie McMahon. “It is a privilege to...
It was a milestone year for the Little Free Library nonprofit organization as we celebrated ten years of Little Free Libraries and reached more than 100 countries! As we wrap up our anniversary year, we’re looking back at 2019’s biggest stories. Here are our top...
In his “refreshingly relatable” book, How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together, author and Slate editor Dan Kois chronicles an epic trip with his wife and two preteen daughters. As they land in New...
Action Book Clubs across the country are combining reading with community service—and having fun along the way! In this series, we’re highlighting some of our favorite reading groups. To find out how you can start an Action Book Club of your own visit the program’s...
Talk about team building! We recently worked with Foresters Financial™ to create 77 Little Free Library book-sharing boxes, which were donated to communities in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Foresters employees and member leaders created the Little Free...
Meet Brandon Hobson, author of Where the Dead Sit Talking and enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. A finalist for the 2018 National Book Awards, Where the Dead Sit Talking is an arresting novel about a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy named Sequoyah who...
Action Book Clubs across the country are combining reading with community service—and having fun along the way! In this series, we’re highlighting some of our favorite reading groups. To find out how you can start an Action Book Club of your own visit the program’s...
The Smithsonian recently installed a birchbark Little Free Library book-sharing box at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C., donated by the Little Free Library (LFL) nonprofit organization. The “take a book, share a book” library seeks...
via GIPHY Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March would approve: The Little Free Library nonprofit organization and Sony Pictures are unveiling Little Women-themed book-sharing boxes in ten U.S. cities! The “Little Women Libraries” celebrate Louisa May Alcott’s classic book...
When Hindi Krinsky, a mother of five and teacher, died suddenly at the age of 32, three registered Little Free Library book-sharing boxes were created in her honor. Then something unexpected happened: Hindi inspired more than 40,000 books to be shared with children...
Meet Regina Porter, author of critically acclaimed The Travelers, described as “a sweeping and devastating debut novel following two American families, one white and one black, from the 1950s through Barack Obama’s first year as president, and grappling...
Action Book Clubs across the country are combining reading with community service—and having fun along the way! In this series, we’re highlighting some of our favorite reading groups. To find out how you can start an Action Book Club of your own visit the...
Meet Miranda Paul and John Parra, the award-winning author and illustrator behind Little Libraries, Big Heroes, a children’s book that tells the origin story of the Little Free Library movement and the ordinary heroes who bring it to life. We asked Miranda...
What’s the one thing better than reading an amazing story? Sharing it with others! That’s why we’re working with Goodreads (the world’s largest community of readers, with 95 million members) to create a global week of book sharing. Give A Good Read Week runs...
We’re excited to announce the debut of Little Libraries, Big Heroes, a new picture book from award-winning duo Miranda Paul and John Parra! The book tells the inspirational story of how our late founder, Todd H. Bol, started the Little Free Library movement....
JUST ANNOUNCED! Our Action Book Club, which combines reading and community service, is launching a new theme: We Are Family, celebrating families of all kinds and how they shape us. In honor of the new theme, we’re hosting an exciting giveaway for Action Book...
The Little Free Library team is excited to welcome M. Greig Metzger as our new executive director. Read a personal letter from Greig about where he comes from and why he’s here: Greetings from Hudson, Wisconsin! I want to take a quick moment of your time to...
Summertime is full of sun, fun, and friends, but for many kids it’s missing one thing: books. According to a new Scholastic study, 53 percent of kids say the school library is the place where they go to get books. But when school’s out and this resource...
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