Little Free Library connects kids with reading
“I was looking at a librarian page on Facebook, and someone had posted about their Little Free Library. I thought it looked pretty cool. So when it came time to write Education Foundation grants, I decided to do one for our campus.
“We placed it behind the school because I wanted it to be more of a neighborhood thing. I didn’t want it out front because of all the traffic. We have a lot of families that live close by, so many of the kids walk to school. This way, whether it’s on the weekend, during the summer, or just any time school isn’t open and kids don’t have a ride to Sterling Municipal Library, there are books here available for them. We also have adult books, so it’s not just for the students.
“The Little Free Library motto is, ‘Take a book, share a book.’ Anyone can take a book and keep it at home forever, return it here, or drop off it or other books that they may have at other Little Free Library locations across the country. If they’re traveling, they can go to the website and search to see if the city they’re going to also has one. They give you the address or GPS coordinates for it.
“A school librarian’s job, first and foremost, is to help instill a love of reading in kids by any means necessary. It could be through graphic novels, comic books, magazines, cereal boxes — just anything they want to read. This is another great way to help encourage them to read.”
— Amanda Rayburn
Amanda is the librarian at Lamar Elementary. She was able to purchase the Little Free Library through a grant from the Goose Creek CISD Education Foundation.
(Photo by Olivia Garza/Liv’s Looking Glass)
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