Michelle Herr was cleaning out her attic last year when she came across boxes and boxes of old children’s books that she had stored away and forgotten about.
There were way too many books for her to keep, but she didn’t know what to do with them.
Then, Herr remembered something.
“I had heard about these little free libraries, and I thought that was a really good idea,” she said.
The project got its jumpstart after Herr called the Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune to see if the company had any unused newspaper boxes she could use to convert into a little library.
Today, three of those boxes have already been converted into little free libraries and have become a way for families to access books during the state’s stay-at-home order that has forced the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library branches to close.
