Visit the Highlands Church Little Free Library!

A new Little Free Library has joined the more than 75,000 little book-sharing boxes in 88 countries around the world, this one located at the Melrose Highlands Congregational Church, 355 Franklin Street, Melrose.  

The Highlands library focuses exclusively on children’s books, particularly books that celebrate diversity and inclusiveness. Whether emphasizing race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, country of origin or other issues, the books in this library offer not only valuable lessons but good stories, well worth a young reader’s time.   

Take a book, share a book is this library’s operating principle, as it is for every little free library. The church community hopes each child will enjoy the book he or she takes. If a book really engages a young reader and it seems that others would react similarly, feel free to return that book to the Highlands library. Or, if a young reader is ready to pass along a favorite book—especially ones that address inclusiveness and diversity—the Highlands Little Free Library welcomes the contribution. 

Each book in the Highlands Little Free Library bears a special bookplate. The children in the church’s Sunday School classes, having heard about the library, drew their own bookplate designs. The art for the  inaugural bookplate was created by a second-grader, with formatting assistance from an adult graphics expert in the congregation. Thanks to them both!

For more information about this worldwide book-sharing effort, visit the www.littlefreelibrary.org website. Don’t miss the site’s map showing library locations in Melrose and elsewhere. Since the Highlands library is only for children’s books, readers with adult books to share will want to know about these other locations.

Come visit the Highlands Church Little Free Library!