Sharing: Top 10 Reasons to Create Little Free Libraries in Your Community (via @clareandtammy)

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Top 10 Reasons to Create Little Free Libraries in Your Community by Tammy Mulligan and Clare Landrigan

We often support schools and communities with promoting summer reading.  We want students to continue their “readerly lives” over the summer.  A few years ago, we were researching ideas to get books to students in different communities and we came across Little Free Libraries.

I first read about Little Free Libraries several years ago, and was always taken aback by the unique and amazing designs people used to build their own library. Maybe this will be the summer I build one…

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