Kids on Maple Court built a little free library — and stocked it themselves
Written and reported by our youngest correspondents, ages nine and eleven, with only light help from a grown-up and a staple gun.
The newly built free library on Maple Court, freshly stocked.
Written and reported by our youngest correspondents, ages nine and eleven, with only light help from a grown-up and a staple gun. The kids on Maple Court noticed there were no little free libraries nearby, so they built one themselves out of an old cabinet and their dad's leftover paint.
“We picked blue because it's everyone's favorite,” said one reporter, age nine. They stocked it with books from their own shelves and a sign asking neighbors to take one, leave one.
It's already working
Within a week, the shelf had turned over twice. The young reporters say they are already planning a second library for the other end of the street.