Cerro Gordo Little Free Library

05/29/2026

📣📣📣We are SO THRILLED to announce to REOPENING of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Columbus County!!! 📣📣📣

Parents, if you have a child under the age of 5, he or she can receive one FREE book every month until their 5th birthday! To register, stop by our office at 107 W. Main St., Whiteville OR visit imaginationlibrary.com!

05/01/2026

🍕📚 It’s HERE! Summer of Stories™ enrollment starts TODAY!
Time to turn reading into rewards (hello, pizza! 😍)

➡️ Enrollment is OPEN now—everyone must enroll each year (school & homeschool doesn’t carry over)
➡️ Download or update the BOOK IT!® App
➡️ Tap “Enroll Now” and complete the form

🍕 Important: If you downloaded the app earlier and added child profiles, that’s a great first step—but you may not be fully enrolled yet. Be sure to tap “Enroll for Summer” and complete registration!

Once enrolled, your information (registered children) will appear in the app when the program officially begins on June 1.

📖 Pre-K – 6th grade
📅 June 1 – August 31
🍕 First reward drops July 1–15

✨ Pro tip: Add the correct number of readers during registration—you can’t go back and add more later!

Let’s make this a summer full of stories, smiles, and pizza from Pizza Hut 🍕💛
Need help? [email protected] or “Contact Us” in the app!

04/28/2026

04/20/2026

04/19/2026

It's National Library Week!

Millions of people visit their libraries every week—and for good reason. During National Library Week, April 19–25, take time to discover what brings you joy at your library. Visit your library and bring friends and family along; encourage a friend to get a library card and discover the opportunities it unlocks; browse the shelves, join a book club, attend a program or storytime, or get started on your next creative project in a makerspace.

National Library Week is filled with opportunities to celebrate our libraries and take action to keep them strong. Join in on one (or all!) of the various commemoration days:

Monday, 4/20: Right to Read Day - we're calling on library lovers and advocates to celebrate wins against censorship efforts and to take action to defend the freedom to read. On Right to Read Day, ALA will release the State of America's Libraries Report, including the list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2025.

Tuesday, 4/21: National Library Workers Day - take time to honor and thank the library workers at your library for all they do to impact your community.

Wednesday, 4/22: National Library Outreach Day - a day to celebrate libraries meeting people where they are. Look for your library out in your community - in the bookmobile, at a local pop-up, at schools or assisted living facilities, or wherever!

Thursday, 4/23: Take Action For Libraries Day - this year, we're asking YOU to show up for our libraries and take action against legislative censorship attempts by contacting Congress.

Stay tuned for posts throughout the week and more ways to get involved, and be sure to visit your library and ilovelibraries.org and celebrate your library.

04/02/2026

Did someBUNNY say it was International Children’s Book Day? Hop on over to our library to celebrate with our collection of family friendly books! 🐣🪺

02/21/2026

✨ : February 21, 1940: John Lewis



📖MARCH: The Complete Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, and Top Shelf Productions (2026)

📖FIGHTING WITH LOVE: The Legacy of John Lewis by Lesa Cline-Ransome, James Ransome, and Paula Wiseman Books (2024)

📖WHO WAS JOHN LEWIS? by Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ, Stephen Marchesi, and Penguin Workshop (2023)

📖BECAUSE OF YOU, JOHN LEWIS by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Keith Henry Brown, and Scholastic (2022)

📖RUN by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, Nate Powell, and Harry N. Abrams (2021)

📖THE STORY OF JOHN LEWIS: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers by Tonya Leslie, PhD and Callisto Kids (2021)

📖YOU SHOULD MEET: John Lewis by Denise Lewis Patrick, Steffi Walthall, and Simon Spotlight (2021)

📖THE STORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS HERO JOHN LEWIS by Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Aaron Boyd, and Lee & Low (2019)

📖PREACHING TO THE CHICKENS by Jabari Asim, E. B. Lewis, and Nancy Paulsen Books (2016)

📖JOHN LEWIS IN THE LEAD: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews, and Lee & Low (2006)

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02/09/2026

02/01/2026

A snowy day is the perfect time to cozy in and read ❄️☃️📖

Stay warm on this snowy day!

01/24/2026

✨ : January 24, 1874: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

📖 SCHOMBURG: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, Eric Velasquez, and Candlewick (2017)

“Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division.” Read more about it here… https://amzn.to/4rc5bwO or https://bookshop.org/a/8348/9780763680466

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