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Do you have a little free library – a box filled with free books that neighbors can donate to or take from – in your town? If you do, the next time you go, consider the makeup of the authors and ...

They have been popping up in droves. On front lawns and street corners. In parks, community centers, and hospitals. You can even find them at beaches, malls, and barbershops. What started in 2009 with ...

The first Little Free Library began with a simple concept: Take a book, return a book. It’s a creative, community-building practice that’s blossomed into an international nonprofit with over 60,000 ...

On the last day he could speak, Little Free Library founder Todd Bol had a message for the world: “I really believe in a Little Free Library on every block and a book in every hand,” he said from ...

Little Free Libraries are popping up all over the city, but this one in Bay View might be the only one like it in the world. When Toni Spott saw a Little Free Library a few years ago, she immediately ...

A year after the unexpected death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol’s family are at odds, with each side claiming that it is acting to protect ...

A Little Free Library in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Courtesy of Little Free Libraries In recent years, little libraries of all shapes and sizes have popped up on street corners and sidewalks across the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author Miranda Paul about Todd Bol, who built the first "Little Free Library" on his Hudson, Wis., deck. Bol died Thursday at age 62 after battling pancreatic cancer.