Little Free Church Library

This tiny little church replica caught my eye in Madison and when I walked closer I discovered it was a Little Free Library. When I opened the stained glass door on the other side I found a book by Deanna Raybourn in the Lady Julia Grey series – a great find because I have really been enjoying her Veronica Speedwell mysteries.

As a voracious reader who could never afford to buy or store all the fiction I consume I have always loved public libraries. So of course I love the Little Free Libraries that have been cropping up around the world since the first one was built in Wisconsin in 2009 by Todd Bol as a tribute to his mother. Little Free Library is a 501c3 organization and people who want to become a volunteer steward of a box can buy one on the Little Free Library website. There are several different models of them. I snapped a picture of this purchased one on my way to the Uptown branch of the Chicago Public Library.

While it is not as unique as the church it does have an original painted bird decoration on top. Now I think I may have to be on the lookout for these tiny libraries not just to borrow the books inside them but to start a new photo collection of the Little Free Libraries themselves.