I'm proud to have TWO Little Free Libraries in the world with my artwork on them! There is the one I painted for a fundraising event for the Decatur Book Festival that sits in the middle of a park in Oakhurst.
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Showing posts with label bookmobiles. Show all posts
Little Free Libraries! A New One!
Did you know that there are now 75,000 Little Free Libraries in the world? Good News Network recently celebrated the milestone and talked about WHY WE NEED MORE!
I'm proud to have TWO Little Free Libraries in the world with my artwork on them! There is the one I painted for a fundraising event for the Decatur Book Festival that sits in the middle of a park in Oakhurst.
I'm proud to have TWO Little Free Libraries in the world with my artwork on them! There is the one I painted for a fundraising event for the Decatur Book Festival that sits in the middle of a park in Oakhurst.
Airstream Bookmobile
You knew it was only a matter of time. And what a rockin' awesome bookmobile a 1959 Airstream makes! The Mobilivre was based in Quebec, but stopped operation in 2008. Y'all need to argue for a comeback tour!
Thanks to Webecoist for the heads up and more great pictures of odd buildings and vehicles that have been transformed into bookstores and libraries! Also thanks to poetic home for the original post and pictures: An Airstream Ingeniously Repurposed into a Library.
Lafayette Book Store
We have another book mobile! Although this one has an interesting start - it's an evolution from a struggling bookstore. The owners of the Lafayette Book Store decided to put the whole thing on wheels and now the Bay Area Bookmobile, or "Big Blue," can go straight to the people at schools, festivals, book clubs, you name it! It's the first "Independent Bookstore on Wheels" that I've ever heard of, and I think it's a great idea.
Big Purple Bus!
It's not a giant grape, it's the San Antonio Public Library's Bookmobile! And here I thought bookmobiles were a fading thing. Not at all!
I love the quote they include on their site:
The book goes to the man, not waiting for the man to come to the book." - Mary Titcom, the first bookmobile lady.
Bookmobile Parade!
Bookmobiles ROCK! And the American Libraries site recently posted Bookmobiles on Parade held during the 2010 ALA (American Library Association) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. (Click the image to view the slideshow.) How cool is this!?
(Thanks to the RIF - Reading is Fundamental - blog for the heads up!)
Camel Book Drive
On the subject of bookmobiles, the Camel Book Drive in Kenya has got to be the most unusual. But maybe one of the most important. Hubbie and I honeymooned in Kenya and it is a truly magical place. However, literacy is LOW and very few kids actually own a book. Kenya is also a very big place. So if the kids can't go to the books, the books will humpity, humpity on a camel to the kids. Fantastic!
Click the photo (from the website) to learn more.
Bookmobiles in History
I've posted before about some unusual bookmobiles, like the bicycle book mobile and the tank bookmobile. Well, the Saint Paul Public Library has a page dedicated to bookmobiles from the past: Bookmobile History and Photo Album. Including the one below. It's groovy to see the evolution of these, and to see how eager the kids were to find a new treasure. In fact, this may have to become a new tag theme at dulemba.com - bookmobiles. Gotta luv 'em.
Thanks to Julie Fortenberry at children's illustration for turning me onto this!
The Book Bike
Again, thanks to Reading Is Fundamental for the heads up!
Argentine Book Tank
Thanks to Reading Is Fundamental for the heads up!
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