Hello,
Our little free library is now open
for business. The labor and design ideas were contributed by the architecture
club of Iowa State. They apparently are encouraged to “give back to the
community.” Now we hope it is used beyond great expectations. Just today three
kids stopped by to look. They would like graphic novels. We only had one and I
believe it was a little bit young for them. I will certainly have my eyes open
looking for possibilities. We also need a number of adult books.
An action team gift from my nonprofit
insurance company will help. In the past I have delivered books farther away
from home. For that I have gotten multicultural books. It was interesting to me
that these kids who stopped seemed to represent three different races. I live
in a great neighborhood. I am so happy to see them being together.
Our downstairs friends are also in on
all of this. So it will be good to share the load, although it is easy to buy
used books from the library from time to time. It is also good that we live
three houses away from the Dairy Queen so there is a quite a lot of foot
traffic past the house. Ice cream and books, what could be better?
I took a picture of the kids after I
asked for their permission, but I do not feel I should share that so you will
just have to picture these boys in your mind with different sizes and colors.
I am including a picture of the
library and those are plants on top. How cute is that?
Paula
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