Last year, the Leadership Greater Rochester group sponsored a community-wide Mini Library project with the Rochester Public Library. I applied for Squash Blossom Farm to be a site but only in-town sites were eligible.
However, this spring I got an invitation to re-apply because the Mini Library project was being expanded County-wide. And, happily, we were selected! In August I joined the other new mini library hosts in a painting party. We were each given a darling, well-crafted (much sturdier than my carpentry try skills would have accomplished) library. I painted mine in our farm theme colors and when I got it home, I adorned it with corrugated metal farm animals.
Today, Kingsley and her mom came to pick up their weekly CSA box and Kingsley picked out a book about animal tracks.
Kids with books make me so happy! I plan to downsize my own overflowing library soon and add some good adult books, too. The Public Library will also contribute regularly to the selection.
Thanks, Rochester Public Library, for helping us accomplish this great project! Come check out the Squash Blossom Mini Library!
2 comments:
The small libraries are all over the place. I've borrowed books from one in the park near here and there's another on the other side of the lake I walk around that I've looked in to many times. Nothing much of interest there yet. Are your books give aways or do they return them and take another?
I encourage kids to trade them in for another (so I so don't run out of farm-themed books) but they are welcome to keep them. Sometimes little kids get worn out running around on Sunday afternoons or restless listening to music, so in the past I have often left a basket of books out so they can have have a quiet diversion with a book.
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