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Teacher launches Little Free Library
Morris Park educator sets up free library with plans to put more around borough
BY JASON COHEN
With limited access to libraries
and many bookstores
closed, one Morris Park teacher
wanted to come up with a way
for her students and the community
to get books for free.
Roseanna Ayala, 33, a
fourth grade teacher at P.S. 83,
said she coincidentally came
across the Little Free Library
online and upon further research,
became intrigued by
the idea.
“The design of the Little
Free Library makes reading
appealing and fun,” she said.
“It feels almost like a book
club.”
She then broached the idea
of creating a Little Free Library
with her students, who
were immediately on board.
The idea is simple: participants
can set up newspaper
cartons or boxes fi lled with
books in front of homes, business
or schools. Those who are
interested can peruse the literary
offerings and either take a
book or leave one.
Ayala is a Norwood resident
who has taught in Morris
Park for eight years and
told the Bronx Times after doing
research about the free library,
she discovered there
were none in the Bronx. The
closest one is in New Rochelle.
“They’re really excited,” she
said. “The kids have reached
out and talked about it.”
Ayala put the fi rst library in
front of her school in June and
has plans to put ones in front of
Sweet Water Dance and Yoga
near Yankee Stadium and the
Bronx Native Shop. Also on
Aug. 10, the Morning Call, a
newspaper in Pennsylvania,
donated 10 boxes for books.
But, Ayala is confi dent she
will fi nd 10 homes in the near
future. She shared that books
from the fi rst library have already
been taken.
“I’m trying to create a network,”
she commented. “The
goal is to create some type of
roadmap.” Ayala plans to set up 10 additional Little Free Libraries around the borough Courtesy of Roseanna Ayala
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