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...
We’re delighted to announce a new partnership with Literati, a subscription book club company, that will increase access to books and instill a love of reading for children in Austin, Texas. Literati is sponsoring five special-edition Little Free Library boxes...
Good Read: The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser Good Deed: Sharing garden veggies with the community This family Action Book Club, based in Missouri, chose a service project close to home. In fact, it’s in their backyard! They share the...
A team of UNC Greensboro researchers has been awarded a $1.4 million Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to increase access to literacy resources and libraries for Native American children and families. UNCG will partner with Little Free Library, Head...
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...
This summer, readers are flooding Little Free Library book-sharing boxes with diverse books that amplify Black voices. Sarah Kamya, a New York high-school counselor and Little Free Library steward, is a champion of this movement. She began filling her local little...
We are delighted to team up with the City of Albuquerque on a new initiative that encourages volunteers to establish Little Free Library book-sharing boxes in the community. The partnership is part of the Office of Civic Engagement’s One ABQ Volunteers program, which...
In the latest addition to its ongoing “Read-Along” initiative on Facebook and YouTube, PBS KIDS has partnered with Little Free Library for a collection of story-time videos this summer designed to encourage reading and togetherness for kids and parents. Through the...
We are honored to receive the 2020 World Literacy Award for Little Free Library’s significant contribution to global literacy. The award was presented to our nonprofit organization by the World Literacy Foundation at the online World Literacy Summit. Andrew Kay,...
During the coronavirus outbreak, Little Free Library stewards are finding creative ways to help their neighbors, transforming their libraries to share everything from ramen noodles and canned goods to toilet paper and jigsaw puzzles. In an ingenious twist, homemade...
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 a priority, 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...
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