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DON'T HUG DOUG! -review by Kaliisha
Don’t Hug Doug (He Doesn’t Like It) Written By: Carrie Finison Drawings by Daniel Wiseman Published By: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for...
kptedlbl
Mar 16, 20222 min read
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Kaliisha's Review of Letter to Live By: An Alphabet Book with Intention
Written by Lisa Frenkel Riddiough Illustrated by Ã…sa Gilland Published by: Running Press Kids Release Date: January 11, 2022 Review: In...
Kaliisha Cole
Mar 8, 20221 min read
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Kaliisha's Review of I AM TODAY
I AM TODAY By Matt Forrest Esenwine Illustrated by Patricia Pessoa Published by: POW! Kids Books Release Date: TBA Review: Matt Forrest...
Kaliisha Cole
Feb 22, 20221 min read
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Introducing Kaliisha!
It takes a lot of people to run a non-profit, and Little Book Locker is excited to announce we have a new person helping us, Kaliisha...
Kristen Wixted
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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The Why of LBL
Usually I write about how Little Book Locker does its thing, or where, or when. THIS. This is WHY. The American Library Association...
Kristen Wixted
Jan 24, 20221 min read
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Secret Book Drop-offs
The surge of Covid cases has affected LBL's ability to get into some of the places were we would be delivering books. BUT we still have...
Kristen Wixted
Jan 18, 20221 min read
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Birthday Book Deliveries
Heather and I (Kristen) spent Wednesday delivering books to LBL sites. We re-stocked the Little Book Locker of the preschool in Revere,...
Kristen Wixted
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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200 Copies of Mary Poppins
Little Book Locker's newest site, Emmaus Family Shelter in Haverhill, MA, had a little problem with their bookshelf when we arrived. It...
Kristen Wixted
Oct 21, 20212 min read
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Another GIANT Book Donation!
Last week we got another entire carload of books (and it's a pretty big car) from the other Boston Glob Horn Book award judge who lives...
Kristen Wixted
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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LBL on Worcester TV!
Heather and I (Kristen) were lucky enough to be interviewed about Little Book Locker by Ana Bottary who works for Spectrum News 1 in...
Kristen Wixted
Sep 24, 20211 min read
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LBL Makes the News!
Watch out mainstream media, Little Book Locker is coming! We were in the Community Advocate. *Kristen bows* It's a local newspaper...
Kristen Wixted
Sep 11, 20211 min read
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Rural Areas are Great Spots for LBL!
You know what we do at Little Book Locker, right? We put indoor kid-friendly little free library-type things in places where kids might...
Kristen Wixted
Aug 16, 20213 min read
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Codman Square Delivery #2
Last winter, right after a snowstorm, we delivered books to the Codman Square Health Center Pediatric Clinic in Dorchester, MA. Then...
Kristen Wixted
Aug 13, 20211 min read
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Writer Friends!
Part of the reason Heather and I started Little Book Locker is because we have friends with books. Lots of books. Many of our friends,...
Kristen Wixted
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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"I have some books for you."
This was the wording in an email from Shoshana, a friend of a friend who wanted to make a book donation. I thought, Great! I can use a...
Kristen Wixted
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Update on Lawrence YMCA
Last week I (Kristen) checked in with our LBL at the Lawrence YMCA. They were a little low on books. Mary Ellen, the woman who runs the...
Kristen Wixted
Jul 12, 20212 min read
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Organized!
The mess of boxes of books was LBL HQ before Memorial Day ... And this lovely shelf of organized books is LBL HQ after I had the day to...
Kristen Wixted
Jun 3, 20211 min read
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Where do we get books?
We use a combination of donated books and books we purchase at (mostly) indie bookstores from our PayPal donations. Yes, it's a very fun...
Kristen Wixted
Apr 21, 20211 min read
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LBL By the Sea
Today's locker drop off, at a daycare in Revere, was another connection through our friendship with Raising a Reader of MA. Revere is a...
Kristen Wixted
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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Lawrence, MA YMCA
Today we (Kristen and Heather) delivered a Little Book Locker to Lawrence, MA, in the YMCA. Our contact, Cathy, explained that the Y is...
Kristen Wixted
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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