At age 71, author and family literacy activist Pam Leo says she is only just beginning “to end illiteracy for free.” Pam started her organization Book Fairy Pantry Project (BFPP) in 2016 after discovering some startling statistics about illiteracy and the lack of book...
Raised in Needham, Massachusetts, Lisa Vergara has spent most of her career giving back to her community. Throughout her various roles, including Creative Art Director, kindergarten art teacher, and Friends of the Needham Public Library Board Member–to name a few,...
Need a book to read? Use your phone to find a Little Free Library near you! We are excited to announce the launch of the Little Free Library mobile application, designed to help readers locate Little Free Library book-sharing boxes in their home communities and...
It’s a lucky day for readers! Three thousand Little Free Library stewards are adding the book The Magic Inside to their libraries, courtesy of Lucky Charms! In addition, General Mills is donating twenty little libraries to high-need communities across the...
Busty Books #139777, named for its home on Busty Bank in Newcastle upon Tyne (not its contents), was installed by Rachel and Paul Pattinson to share their excess books and give back to their neighborhood— find it on the Little Free Library world map! This quaint and...
We are thrilled to partner with Good Morning America (GMA) to share their book club selections with Little Free Library stewards across the U.S. and Canada! Each month, registered stewards can apply to win copies of the newest GMA book club pick. If you’re a...
Melissa Rippy is the third owner of the mobile bookstore that she has turned into Elsie the Mobile Little Free Library charter #134624. Melissa spotted Elsie for sale online. There was so much interest in Elsie that Melissa immediately bought her sight unseen!...
Aditi Jain went to the same school for 14 years, from kindergarten to graduation. Her school had a program called “Good Reading,” where at the start of every school year, each child was challenged to read a specific number of pages or books by the end of...
Little Free Library #106502 is in Alamo Square Park, San Francisco. Find this library and many more on the Little Free Library world map! Stewards Andrew and Gretchen and their children are a family of book lovers. They love reading together, visiting the library,...
Debbie McNeil stewards Little Free Library (LFL) #114315 in Cultus Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Find her library and many more on the Little Free Library world map! McNeil is passionate about books and reading. Her friend Earla, who also stewards a little library,...
There is no doubt one of the best and most beneficial aspects of Little Free Libraries (LFLs) is they enable people to read books more easily! They can help eliminate cost and transportation barriers that make reading inaccessible for many. Unfortunately, little...
Here’s a fun bookish craft: make book bricks to decorate your Little Free Library or garden! Steward Julie B. in Lafayette, Louisiana, is a calligrapher and artist. She started the Shelly Drive Little Free Library #38509 several years ago as a joint venture with...
Seraphin Niyonsenga lived in Davis, California, in 2016 as a Fulbright Exchange Fellow. On his morning runs, he passed by Little Free Library book boxes and they caught his attention. He realized that the Little Free Library model could be an aswer to bridging the...
“I was scrolling through Facebook years ago when I first saw a Little Free Library. It put such a smile on my face that I knew I wanted to start one of my own someday,” says Donna Bright, steward of library #M107532 in Chino, California. (Find her library...
To All LFL Stewards, As Read Across America (RAA) week approaches, the racism in children’s literature, most notably Dr. Seuss, whose birthday and books were celebrated for years in RAA, is an important and inevitable topic, one that recently surfaced on Little Free...
Dra. Katia Padilla Bautista grew up in Morelia, a southern city in Mexico. She recalls her parents would only buy her a book if she got good grades. “Every time I earned a book, I remember reading it slowly because they only gave grades every 2 months!”...
We’ve all been tangled up with our technology long enough, thanks to the pandemic. It’s time for a big stretch and a break! Little Free Library is proud to partner with the National Day of Unplugging as they celebrate their 12th year helping people take a break from...
There are lots of cool Little Free Library plans out there, but if you want to build a book exchange box, you don’t have to start from scratch. An easy way to save money and time is to modify an existing piece of furniture or appliance so that it’s ready...
Little Free Library #4095 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, doesn’t just have one steward…. it has twelve. Creating the library and maintaining it are a neighborhood effort. “Years ago I heard about little libraries and brought up the idea at our neighborhood...
Like many of us, Layla Rascona and her husband Anthony felt the toll of social distancing during COVID-19. “We felt super isolated. We spent more time at home and in our yard and I noticed a lot of new faces in other yards that I hadn’t met yet,”...
There’s a growing body of research that shows when you focus on being kind to others, rather than doing things for yourself, you feel happier and more positive. It’s like the kindness you put out into the world comes back to you! Starting a Little Free...
Nwamaka Unaka has read a book to her daughter every night since the day she was born. One night they were watching a YouTube video together about Little Free Library and her daughter asked if they could start their own for their Houston, Texas, neighborhood. She had...
“It’s funny how things that aren’t planned sometimes turn out so well. That’s the way it happened with the Little Free Library,” says Kathy Walters, steward of Little Free Library #97020 in Stevensville, Pennsylvania. It started with...
“I decided to try something new … and it has been incrediby popular. Everyone has been loving having an activity to do while social distancing,” says Alexandra MacDonald, steward of Little Free Library #20834 in Toronto, Ontario. (Find her library...
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