Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Todd Bol's mother died in 2009, he wanted to honor her in a special way. She was a dedicated teacher and an avid reader, so ...

Todd Bol hammered together the first Little Free Library. Then he built a movement around it. Bol believed the now-ubiquitous little boxes of books — and the neighbors who cared for them — could ...

Little Free Libraries are the very embodiment of neighborliness. Those handmade wooden cabinets are both receptacles for sharing and expressions of community pride, no matter what moldy tomes you ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Miranda Paul joined us at the station to discuss the premiere of her new children's book "Little Libraries, Big Heroes," about the creator of Little Free Library, Todd Bol, who ...

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin man who founded the Little Free Library, a nonprofit that began with a dollhouse-like box of free books in his front yard and ballooned into an international ...

A year after the unexpected death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol’s family are at odds, with each side claiming that it is acting to protect ...

From brothers in New York to an antiracist steward in Alabama, winners of the seventh-annual awards share an abundance of book joy ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Little Free ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author Miranda Paul about Todd Bol, who built the first "Little Free Library" on his Hudson, Wis., deck. Bol died Thursday at age 62 after battling pancreatic cancer.

Chances are you have a free little library in your neighborhood. It all started Hudson, Wisc. man Todd Bol's passion for reading. His vision has swept the world.

In 2009, Todd Bol was renovating his garage in Wisconsin when he ripped off its old wooden door. He liked the wood, though, and didn’t want to throw it out. So after staring at it for a while, he ...