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The Little Library by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas (Illustrator). For our 2025 6th graders or anyone that arrives to this text first! Includes a lil' surprise that we talked about in class. Check! - Mr. Lee (Little Free Librarian)

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About our Little Free Puma Library at Canyon Hills Middle School. Shout out to our Canyon Hills MS librarian Mrs. Delgado and our art teacher of the year Mrs. Samaniego Calderon!

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The Little Free Puma Library
The Little Free Panther Library @ Edgar Park Elementary All angles of the beautifully painted Little Free Puma Library
by Mrs. Samaniego Artist Teacher of the Year.

The Little Free Puma Library @ Canyon Hills Middle School
painted by Martha Samaniego-Calderon To see the artwork on one frame, scroll below the message! Little Free Library materials arrive to the Canyon Hills Library! Behind My Mask, a book by our Artist Teacher of the Year Mrs. Samaniego!

Mrs. Samaniego is the amazing artist behind our Little Free Puma Library!

My first donation to our Little Free Puma Library!

The Little Free Library by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas click here

The Little Free Puma Library (Front View) Artwork by Mrs. Samaniego-Calderon

The Little Free Puma Library (Side View Left) Artwork by Mrs. Samaniego-Calderon

The Little Free Puma Library (Back View) Artwork by Mrs. Samaniego-Calderon

The Little Free Puma Library (Side View Right) Artwork by Mrs. Samaniego-Calderon

2024's Little Free Puma Library summer stack!
The first day I noticed our Little Free Library in the hallway, I was so excited.
It didn't yet have it's legs, but that day was soon coming.
All that mattered was that students now had access
to our Little Free Puma Library.
My earliest memory of Little Free Library was during a visit for a grant meeting at the Center Against Family Violence in my previous career. It was the first time I'd ever seen one. When I started teaching, I ran into another Little Free Library at the Edgar Park Elementary school campus where I visited for a chess club meeting with the Panthers. Ironically, it was a Little Free Library that our current librarian at Canyon Hills also had set up. I'd always imagined having one where we were. One we can call our own and on the map of the Little Free Library international network.

Thanks to Mrs. Delgado, our Puma Librarian, we now have a Little Free Library on our Canyon Hills campus. It doesn't have an official name, so for now, I just call it the Little Free Puma Library. I'm thankful to Mrs. Delgado for the steps she took to get it funded through We Choose, for building the materials sent by the Little Free Library organization, and for connecting with our Artist Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Samaniego for the beautiful design.

Our library has been up all year, and I think I've spent more time admiring that we have one, than I have actually utilizing it, so this post is a first to show love and appreciation for our Little Free Library and to place my first official text in there with a lil' gift for a lucky library patron. It's a wonderful Little Free Library, one that's connected to our campus, it's teachers, and I hope to the students that now have access to books anytime they'd like to stop by with their families to get one.

It's a chance for me to be the librarian I've aspired to be as I got older (now I can at least be a Little Free Librarian). To be able to participate in an initiative that's focused on building a community of readers, inspiring young readers, and bringing access to books 24/7 where there are no locked doors, no hours, and access always to a collection of texts.

Below are more pictures I took over the past several months as the library began to take shape.

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The Little Free Puma Library @ Canyon Hills MS

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The Little Free Puma Library @ Canyon Hills Middle School All angles of the beautifully painted Little Free Puma Library by Mrs. Samaniego A...

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One of my favorite sides of our Little Free Library painted by art teacher of the year Mrs. Samaniego Calderon.