The simple idea that spread 📚 Margret Aldrich of Little Free Library
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GUEST: Margret Aldrich
COMMUNITY: Little Free Library
HOSTS: Bailey Richardson & Kevin Huynh
Show Notes
In 2009, Todd Bol erected the very first Little Free Library book exchange in his front yard in Hudson, Wisconsin. Crafted from an old wooden garage door he didn’t want to throw out, Todd built the library as an ode to his late mother, a schoolteacher and lifelong reader.
Todd Bol, the creator of Little Free Libraries, in 2013 in Minneapolis. Credit David Joles/Star Tribune, via Associated Press
In the days after, Todd watched as the simple “take a book, share a book” concept resonated with his neighbors, sparking new conversations between them. Soon people were asking Todd for their own little libraries.
By the time of Todd’s death in October 2018, there were more than 75,000 registered Little Free Library book exchanges around the world in 88 countries, “from the Netherlands, Brazil, and Japan to Australia, Ghana, and Pakistan.”
To learn more about how Todd’s simple idea turned into a global movement, we caught up with Margret Aldrich, who leads Marketing & Communication for the organization and also wrote The Little Free Library Book.
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