I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, since Jeff Lemkin turned me onto it.
Little Free Library provides small structures you can set up outside your home, or in your neighborhood, for books. It’s a small, local, free book-exchange station, lending library, community resource… and it’s all about sharing books, which is a Very Good Thing.
You can read more about the organization here.
I love this idea. I hope it spreads. I’m already casting my eye around my neighborhood and wondering where would be the right place, and what would be the right books… Now taht’s tricky. There are so many books, and mileage varies on reading taste. How would you stock your little free library?
Enjoy your day.
We have more and more Little Free Libraries in Minneapolis. There are several in my neighborhood. The contents turn over a lot as people contribute books and take them away again. One neighbor collects books in their house to supplement the library when it turns up empty again. She noted recently that they needed more kids’ books, since a lot of kids stopped to look at the library! So whatever you choose in the beginning, the Little Free Library stock is constantly metamorphosing. They are great attractions for the neighborhood!
Shirley jackson, Dostoevsky, Don Marquis’ Archie and Mehitibel, Gloria Steinem, any kind of poetry, some history….And don’t forget it is a Little Free Library.
Beth, how cool! I wish we had more here. And there are so many kids’ books I’d love to reread again (visions of Clifford, the Big Red Dog….)
Barbara, great suggestions, thank you!
Yup. They are cool and they work. So just begin! A trend will become clear.
Hah, I woke thinking more about this. I won’t give away books that I like to people I don’t know. I hope you enjoy yourself.