A Little Free Library has been installed at Literacy Connects, 200 E. Yavapai Road, to offer free books to neighborhood residents.
The small front-yard book exchange is part of Little Free Libraryโs international program, which is in 70 countries. Small wooden boxes, often brightly painted, contain books that people can take for free and exchange with books of their own. People can also donate books by placing them in the library boxes. The idea is to foster reading in areas where books might be scarce.
The Literacy Connects free library is near Amphitheater High School and gets many pedestrians walking by. Since it opened, more than 200 books have been distributed through the free library.
โSeeing our neighbors get books from our Little Free Library has only reinforced how great that need for home libraries is,โ said Violet Kennedy, Literacy Connects library coordinator, in a news release. โMy hope is that we can meet that need.โ
Literacy Connects gives out more than 1,000 books every week to children in need through its early literacy programs.
A look at an online map shows more than 40 registered Little Free Library sites in the greater Tucson area.
For more information go online to littlefreelibrary.org
