From BookRiot:
Even though books have been subversive and political at many critical points in history, people still tend to think of them as an uncomplicated good in modern cities and towns. I know this because when my husband and I built a Little Free Library and stuck it in our front yard, we became known as “the Little Free Library couple” among the circle of community-engaged citizens that we were getting to know.
As in many towns and cities, our town has two dozen or so people that you see at every meeting, in every neighborhood event, at every charity fundraiser. These people didn’t have a way to place us: not that many people move to this city, and we are new to town. We’re nice enough, but even I understand when someone doesn’t really remember those nice but kind of quiet people who show up for a lot of meetings. When we had the Little Free Library to talk about, things changed.
A local elementary school principal looped us in on a new childhood literacy program just because we’d put a box in our front yard full of our old books; people grinned with recognition whenever we were describing where we lived and resorted to using the LFL as a landmark. I was stunned: there is a group of people out there that see the idea of promoting books to kids as great!
Link to the rest at BookRiot
PG has posted about Little Free Libraries before, but not recently. Following are a couple of photos of little free libraries.
Here’s a link to the Little Free Library website
There are a lot of reasons to appreciate the little free libraries.
Some of the found in the diversity of their architecture and decoration.
To see what I mean go to images.google.com and type in “little free libraries”.
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I did that, and you’re right. So many styles. I even saw one that looked like the mini mid century house I used to own, clerestory windows and all.