DRAYTON, Ont. – A red British telephone booth-turned-little free library is making literacy a landmark in Mapleton.
Nicknamed the Little Red Library, the library fits one person at a time and is the size of a small closet- stacked floor to ceiling with a few hundred books, puzzles and games at any time, ranging in age and genre and all visible from the booth's street-facing windows. "Reading is such a basic necessity for anything in life...if you can't read that affects many aspects of your life," said Belec. "I think it's so important, especially to start with the children to get them to have that desire and that love of literacy and wanting to pick up a book not because it's required reading in school but just for the love of it."
Open 24/7, Belec said she typically opens the library from May until October or the first snowfall and has gone as far as to install LED lights inside the booth for night use.