Blog posts tagged "Little Free Library"

Pointing in the right direction
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May. 20, 2014 - 5:29 pm
Those cold days of winter when we didn't want to venture outside were perfect for the building of my Little Free Library. While my husband and I were situated cozily inside, he made sure that the four walls of the Little Free Library took shape and a gabled roof and big front door appeared. After...
The barn box begins to take shape.
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Feb. 15, 2014 - 2:25 pm
I did it! I sent in the required $35 and my future Little Free Library is officially registered worldwide. Number 11,109 already existed and now 11,110 is being constructed! I received my packet and the wooden sign that will identify the book box as an official Little Free Library once it is placed...
"Books in a Box: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of Wisconsin"
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Jan. 15, 2014 - 2:30 pm
Lutie Stearns was a librarian who believed that books have the power to change readers' lives. She fueled this belief by taking books to nearly 1,400 locations in Wisconsin through traveling little libraries between 1895 and 1914. Her cause was picked up in 2009 by a young Wisconsonite who built a...