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Little Free Libraries & Tiny Sheds

12 Miniature Structures You Can Build

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Pub Date Mar 26 2019 | Archive Date May 29 2019


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Description

Expand the sharing movement to your community with Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds—your complete, photo-illustrated source for building tiny sharing structures.

Around the world, a community movement is underway featuring quaint landscape structures mounted on posts in front yards and other green spaces. Some are built for personal use, as miniature sheds for gardeners, or as decorative accent pieces. More commonly, though, they are evidence of the growing trend toward neighborhood organization and community outreach.

This movement has been popularized by Wisconsin-based Little Free Library (LFL), whose members currently include 75,000 stewards seeking to build community togetherness and promote reading at the same time by sharing books among neighbors. LFL has inspired builders to use similar structures to share things like CDs, food, garden tools, and seeds in the community.

Produced in cooperation with Little Free Library and authored by professional carpenter Phil Schmidt, Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds is the builder’s complete source of inspiration and how-to knowledge. This information-packed guide features:

  • A guide to planning and designing your little sharing structure
  • An overview of building materials and tools
  • 12 complete plans for structures of varying sizes and aesthetics
  • Step-by-step color photography and instructions
  • A gallery of tiny structures for further inspiration
  • Information on proper installation of small structures
  • Common repairs and maintenance for down the road

Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds even includes information on how to become a steward, getting the word out about your little structure once it’s up and running, and tips for building a lively collection.

Community togetherness has never been so at the fore of our consciousness—or so important. Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds is one tool on the road to helping you build community in your neighborhood.
Expand the sharing movement to your community with Little Free Libraries and Tiny Sheds—your complete, photo-illustrated source for building tiny sharing structures.

Around the world, a community...

Marketing Plan

Key Selling Points: Utilize LFL organization to spread the word on the book Multiple media outlets will respond/cover: Home/garden/DIY, domestic lifestyle, book reviewers and literary outlets Community organization and outreach are subjects of growing interest as a reaction to continued cultural division. Community gardens, for example, are flourishing. The Little Free Library organization, the book's licensor, reports 65,000 official LFL "stewards" and growing; it's estimated the libraries are responsible for helping to distribute millions of books annually. This is the only DIY book devoted to showing readers how to build small structures including libraries, share boxes, and more.  

Key Campaign Activity Massive media outreach Leverage LFL database wherever possible E-mail and/or physical mailing for sales/publicity solicitation efforts

Consumer: Quarto Knows social media – create contests for photos of projects from the book Video trailer Quarto Knows B2C email campaigns Giveaways at Goodreads, select blogs and websites

Publicity/Media:


National Home/Garden Media Organic Gardening, Fine Gardening, Urban Farm, Hobby Farms: Horticulture Magazine, Garden Design, American Gardener, Coastal Living Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, Nature’s Garden, Birds & Blooms, Country Woman, Fine Gardening, Mother Earth Living, Sunset Magazine, Living the Country Life, Garden Gate, Organic Life, Garden Design

Daily Newspapers – both home/DIY and book review coverage – Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Associated Press, Wire services: Knight Ridder, Tribune Media Services, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Sacramento Bee Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post, Arizona Star, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Detroit Time, Detroit Free Press, Omaha News-Herald

Regional Magazines: Midwest Living, Southern Living, Sunset, Northern Gardener, Southwest Home & Garden

Blogs and Websites to include home/garden, DIY, home improvement, and book review websites and additional media

Book Industry/Book Reviews:  Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Bookish, Shelf Awareness, Trade Review: Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Bookish, Shelf Awareness, Kirkus, BookTrib Radio – pitch NPR and local public radio stations as well as syndicated shows – Local & Syndicated Programs: You Bet Your Garden/Philadelphia (and national NPR syndication), Bob Tanem In the Garden/ San Francisco, Garden Talk/San Francisco, Joy In the Garden/Vermont, In the Garden/Memphis, Mike Nowak/Chicago, Garden Life Rad

Key Selling Points: Utilize LFL organization to spread the word on the book Multiple media outlets will respond/cover: Home/garden/DIY, domestic lifestyle, book reviewers and literary outlets...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780760358122
PRICE $24.99 (USD)
PAGES 176

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