Celebrating Books and Little Libraries with A Community Event 📚🍂🎉
Join us this weekend for the launch of our new Little Library with cider, fall treats, and local authors as we celebrate #BannedBooksWeek and the joy of reading!
Hello travelers, readers, and freedom fighters,
You all know how much I love to travel on adventures but for many these trips are not accessible, affordable, or available. So, how can anyone travel for free anywhere, at any time?
Free books!
But, many books are banned in the United States. This is dangerous and wrong.
So, I opened up a little free library to provide all the books for everyone.
The Importance of Protecting the Right to Read 📚🚫🔓
This week is #BannedBooksWeek, an opportunity to project our freedoms and challenge book bans and censorship in our communities.
Books like Charlottes’s Web by E.B. White, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, and A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein and more have been banned or faced challenges. It’s crucial to protect the right to read and ensure that everyone has access to diverse perspectives and stories.
What are some actions you can take?
Sign and share the 2024 Banned Books Week Resolution introduced this week by Congressman Jamie Raskin and Senator Brian Schatz
Check out the Little Free Library’s banned book map and locations of nearby Little Free Libraries. Then contribute a book to a Little Free Library near you.
Celebrate the freedom to read and check Bookshop.org's Banned and Challenged Books list
Building Our Little Library 🛠️🎨📚
If you build it, they will come.
You can order a Little Free Library or build one from scratch.
Building a library is like a junior high wood shop project on steroids, with a dash of kindergarten art.
Before you dig, be safe and call 811.
Grab a strong family member or friend, and together, dig that hole with gusto, but watch out for the big rocks. Pour the cement, especially important in places like Oregon with the rainy season, making sure it’s level and sturdy. Then, channel your inner artist and paint that library with all the creativity you can muster.
Fill it with a few of your favorite books, and rally your friends and neighbors to contribute their literary treasures.
Before you know it, you’ll have a community hub that’s as heartwarming as a Ted Lasso pep talk, as enriching as a Bourdain travelogue, and as solid as an Old House renovation.
Celebrate with a Little Library Launch Party 🍎 🍪 🎆
This weekend, we will celebrate #BannedBooksWeek with a special neighborhood event for our new Little Library!
If you live in the neighborhood, join us for cider, fall treats, and local authors as we celebrate the joy of reading and the importance of protecting the right to read.
Thanks for being part of our community and supporting the right to read.
