I am sure you have seen them in your neighborhood.   Those brightly colored little “houses”  filled with books.  Did you know that Little Free Libraries is a non- profit with a mission to increase book access for everyone  and to forage community connections?  There are over 70,000 of these little book exchanges in 85 countries.

My books are in some of them!  This young woman has built and organized and filled little libraries in underserved communities in the US.My books are in two of those libraries.  Or they were.  I am hoping that someone took them, read them and exchanged them.  Or maybe they kept them to read over and over…or shared them with friends and family or passed them forward.

And here is another connection.  This image showed up on my son Peter’s FB.  A friend of his from college took his daughters to a little library in Wisconsin.  Guess what they found.  A copy of When Africa Was Home.  It is Peter’s story about when we lived in Malawi.  His friend recognized the name and the story.  His daughters have the book now and their Dad knows the main character.  How cool is that?  This is what I love about the writing life.  The connections.  They keep happening when you least expect them.  In Little Libraries and Big Libraries in classrooms and homes, in letters and emails and just about anywhere and everywhere around the country and the world.