How to Build Your Very Own Little Free Library - Philip Schmidt, Little Free Library

Expand the book-sharing movement to your community with How to Build Your Very Own Little Free Library—your photo-illustrated, inspirational source for building tiny sharing libraries.Around the world, a community movement is underway featuring quaint landscape structures mounted on posts in front yards and other green spaces, as well as supported in large pots and other vessels outside homes and businesses on busy urban streets. They are evidence of the growing trend toward neighborhood organization, community outreach, and in some cases, a quiet protest against book bans.This movement has been popularized by Minnesota-based Little Free Library (LFL), whose members currently include 200,000 library stewards around the world who seek to build community togetherness and promote reading by sharing books among neighbors. LFL has inspired builders to use similar structures to share things like CDs, food, and seeds in the community.Produced in cooperation with the Little Free Library nonprofit organization and authored by professional carpenter Phil Schmidt, How to Build Your Very Own Little Free Library is the builder’s complete source of inspiration and how-to knowledge. This newly updated, information-packed guide features:A how-to for planning and designing your little sharing structureAn overview of building materials and tools11 complete plans for structures of varying sizes and aestheticsStep-by-step color photography and instructionsA gallery of tiny structures, alon
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