Escape Artists
Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Languorous Lass on November 24, 2021, 12:13:44 AM
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Cast of Wonders 474: Little Free Library (https://www.castofwonders.org/2021/11/cast-of-wonders-474-little-free-library/)
• Author: Naomi Kritzer (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/naomi-kritzer/)
• Narrator: Diane Severson Mori (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/diane-severson-mori/)
• Host: Katherine Inskip (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/katherine-inskip-2/)
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/jeremy-carter/)
• Artist: Alexis Goble (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/alexis-goble/)
"Little Free Library" was previously published in Tor.com (https://www.tor.com/2020/04/08/little-free-library-naomi-kritzer/), April 8, 2020.
Click here to listen to Episode 474 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/castofwonders/Wonders474.mp3)
Meigan built her Little Free Library from a kit, because she wanted to make it into art. She sanded the wood and painted it with primer, then glued on the rocks she’d picked up from the Lake Superior shore over the summer and used acrylics to paint indigo swirls around them. When she mounted it on the post outside her St. Paul house, she decided to paint the post, too, and painted a fuchsia road, winding around the post to the box at the top, and outlined the road in smaller pebbles. There was a little bit of glitter in the fuchsia craft paint, and she decided that the book cabinet should have some of that, as well. Finally she screwed on the sign that said “Little Free Library” with the instructions: take a book, return a book.
Tags: Alexis Goble, books, charity, Diane Severson Mori, education, fairies, Jeremy Carter, Katherine Inskip, libraries, Naomi Kritzer, reading, sharing, Spotlight Story, warfare, young adult fiction