Category: Little Free Library

Our Little Free Library on the Front Page of our Local Newspaper!

      Hooray!  I’m not sure if we’re getting any more readers from this but we’re definitely getting more book donations.   Right now, we’re getting an average of 5 new books donated each day – faster than I can keep up with stamping and adding BookCrossing bookplates.   I have started reading up …

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Beverly Cleary on turning 100: Kids today ‘don’t have the freedom’ I had – The Washington Post

The Greenbriar Little Free Library currently has a few Beverly Cleary books – but they don’t stick around long!   Beverly Cleary doesn’t really want to talk about turning 100. “Go ahead and fuss,” she says of the big day, April 12. “Everyone else is.” Across the country, people are delving into Cleary nostalgia, with …

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The New Shelf is IN!

  The new shelf is in. We continue to get book donations – many thanks to all who have donated!  One of my piano students brought a bag of children’s books to his last lesson 🙂 Greenbriar Little Free Library #33664 https://www.facebook.com/GreenbriarLittleFreeLibrary/

Adding a New Shelf

  The Greenbriar Little Free Library #33664 has only been open for a week but donations are coming in so modification are alreading being made. There’s also talk of a “Children’s Annex” but we’ll see about that! https://www.facebook.com/GreenbriarLittleFreeLibrary/

Little Free Library Fest announces super-adorable schedule

  You may have noticed Little Free Libraries popping up in your neighborhood in recent years. The adorable mailbox-type structures invite people to borrow a book or contribute a book for free. Source: Little Free Library Fest announces super-adorable schedule | City Pages

The Little Free Library is Finished!

The paint has dried, so now to add the books today 🙂       Here’s us, at the top of the list:  Find a Little Free Library near you at http://locator.njntrubl.com/   Greenbriar Little Free Library #33664 is on Facebook at   https://www.facebook.com/GreenbriarLittleFreeLibrary/        

Little by little, one for the books

  Scarborough (Maine) Public Library has been offering a central place for residents to get books of all genres for more than 100 years. Now, there is a push to get literature into residents’ hands in a much different way. This spring, the library will launch two Little Free Libraries, small privately operated libraries in …

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Travellers Staying At This Place In Scotland Take Turns Running The Bookshop Downstairs

At The Open Book, in Wigtown, Scotland, you can fulfill your dream of running a bookstore. The unique Airbnb flat costs just 57 USD a night, but it comes with a stipulation: renters also work at the bookshop on the first floor, doing everything that a regular bookshop owner might do in a regular, 40-hour …

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

  My Little Free Library isn’t quite ready for the Grand Opening so we can’t have a Dr. Seuss party this year. Meanwhile, though…     Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where I also grew up and went to High School. The Springfield Library Quadrangle has been home to the Dr. …

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Also in the Neighborhood…

  From the February, 2016 Greenbriar Flyer  

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