DIY Little Free Library

Want to build one of your own? The plans for this library are available.

If you know my 8-year-old daughter, Abigail, you know that she is a reader. She will occasionally eat, sometimes sleep. Other than that she is reading. We can’t keep her supplied with enough books. In a side-by-side comparison, she destroyed me. And her recall is bordering on spooky.

So for her 8th birthday, my wife and I decided to make her a librarian. Once again, Jess introduced me to a brand new thing I had never even heard of: a Little Free Library. Now I find them all over. The concept is you can take a book, but you need to leave a book in it’s place, so there will always be books to borrow. We sat down, designed, and built Abigail her own library. We even registered it with littlefreelibrary.org so she could be official.