Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

#Bookmobile image 9 of 9! @BookBabe ‘s vaunted masterpiece!!! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👩🏼‍🎨 Unanimously loved by our community. She‘s just so darn impressive. 😍😍😍 I‘m a very lucky fellow. ☺️🤗🤗🤗🤗

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

MicrobeMom Amazing!! 6y

Gina !WoW! 6y

jdiehr That's awesome! 6y

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CaitZ That's beautiful! 6y

catebutler She did such a great job! What a beautiful mural. 😍 6y

Kaye How long did it take her to do that ? 6y

kspenmoll That is FABULOUS! Love the vibrant colors, the images, people she chose to include. Incredibly talented @BookBabe !❤️❤️ 6y

MrBook @kaye 2 or 3 weeks working a few hours a day, I think. 6y

saresmoore Incroyable! Beautiful work! 6y

rather_be_reading 😍😍 6y

DivineDiana How fantastic! I love it! ❤️ 6y

Branwen Wow! Omg she is so amazing! Great job @BookBabe !!! 💕 Its gorgeous! 😍 6y

Pamwurtzler That is amazing! Beautiful! @BookBabe 6y

Kaye TALENT 6y

Sills Could be my next set of wheels❤️ @tpixie 6y

BookBabe Aww, thanks you guys! 🥰💕 6y

BennettBookworm This is just beyond epic. Congrats!!! 6y

tpixie @BookBabe congrats!! This is so awesome! Great artwork! And a great place to display it!!! @sulls thanks for tagging me!!! 6y

PatienceFortitude Cannot love this enough! Brava @BookBabe 6y

Billypar I will join the chorus: this is wonderful @BookBabe - what a beautiful panorama for book lovers! I loved my childhood bookmobile but it was a bright 1970s orange with ''books" in large red lowercase print- a bit of an eyesore, even if the inside was good ? 6y

Avanders Whaaaaaaaaat? This is amazing!!! 😍😍😍 @BookBabe 6y

BookBabe Thanks everyone! ☺️☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️ And thank you, @MrBook ! 😘 So nice to feel appreciated. 🤗🤗🤗 6y

Rachel_nyc I loved bookmobile day as a kid but ours looked nothing like this. This is fantastic! 6y

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MrBook

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

#Bookmobile image 8 of 9! There‘s the whole image for you to see! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @BookBabe spent a lot of time composing that painting. The print shop was floored with the original painting, and everyone‘s been floored by the wrap-around of it. 😎👌🏻👌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

Chrissyreadit Wow!!!!! Amazing! 6y

Kshakal It is beautiful!! 6y

kspenmoll It‘s just gorgeous!!!!🎉🎉❤️ 6y

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rather_be_reading 😍😍 6y

tpixie Beautiful coming and going! Both sides! @sills 6y

Sills This is my kind of ride🙂 @tpixie 6y

tpixie @Sills yes!!!! 6y

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MrBook

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#Bookmobile image 7 of 9! Annnd the front portion of the driver‘s side. The upper left portion is the iconic image of the Delaware Water Gap that can be seen for miles and miles around. Interstate 80 cuts right through that, but it‘s just plain better to show the Delaware River with no highway. 😉

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe

kspenmoll Love the little readers under the tree! Glad you posted close ups. ❤️ 6y

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MrBook

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#Bookmobile image 6 of 9! The center of the driver‘s side. Can‘t go wrong with that tree! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe

arubabookwoman @Bookbabe is one talented artist! 6y

kspenmoll So whimsical ❤️ 6y

tpixie The squirrel!!! 🐿 I missed that when I screenshot and zoomed the first time!!! @BookBabe 6y

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MrBook

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

#Bookmobile image 5 of 9! This is the back-half of the driver‘s side. Even when you step back a ways from the vehicle, you can still see the painterly details. There‘s plenty to take in! 😁👍🏻👍🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe

AlissaCMiles This is so lovely 6y

kspenmoll The flowers. 6y

Eggs Just lovely 👏🏻❤️👏🏻💙👏🏻💛 6y

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MrBook

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#Bookmobile image 4 of 9! The back-end of the vehicle. Wouldn‘t you like to get stuck behind it?! 😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I wasn‘t the only one taking pictures, by the way. A half dozen or so other folks were also snapping away—not bad since it‘s already been out & about for more than a month.

@BookBabe made an extensively detailed panoramic landscape, so this is a sliver of the whole. 😎👍🏻👍🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe ☺️☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️ 6y

kspenmoll The owl, squirrel on book stack. Love @BookBabe details. Everyone will come. Makes me want to go & see it in person. (edited) 6y

tpixie @kspenmoll yes!!! Love the back @BookBabe 6y

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MrBook

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#Bookmobile image 3 of 9! Another close-up. It looks like an actual painting, doesn‘t it?! It‘s astoundingly outstanding. The painting itself looks beyond amazing, and then to see it blown up to the size of a big vehicle and stay just as sharp and prominent blows you away. Truly extraordinary!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe

kspenmoll My excitement grows with each post, truly 6y

tpixie It looks like canvas!!! 6y

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MrBook

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

#Bookmobile image 2 of 9! The company the library chose is second-to-none. @BookBabe and the Director drove down to the place and they took hi-res shots of the actual painting that she made. In fact, the resolution is so high that you can see Bookbabe‘s every dab and brush stroke!!! It‘s so vivid, in fact, that the illustrations look 3-D. Your brain actually needs a moment to adjust to that feature. 😆👌🏻👌🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

kspenmoll ❤️ 6y

tpixie @BookBabe yes the paint strokes! And the texture!!! How do they do that? Is it some sort of vinyl wrap??? 6y

BookBabe @tpixie Yes, exactly! 😊🙌🏻 6y

tpixie @BookBabe wow!! 6y

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MrBook

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#Bookmobile image 1 of 9! So I‘ve FINALLY caught my library‘s bookmobile parked outside. For those who don‘t know, @BookBabe was chosen from artists across the region to design the bookmobile‘s wrap-around. Everyone‘s been going craaaaazy over it 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! The kids at the stops are in love with it. Now I can do her justice by showing her masterpiece out in the fresh air.

This is a close-up.

#LitsyLovesLibraries #BookishArt

BookBabe 😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 6y

kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️❤️😘 6y

Eggs 💙❤️💛💖💝❣️ 6y

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OrangeMooseReads It‘s absolutely gorgeous! 😻😍 6y

Texreader Yes!!! @BookBabe is seriously talented!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ this wraparound! What a wonderful display of her work!!! 6y

tpixie Wow!!!!! 6y

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Wellreadhead

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

Letcher County Bookmobile outside of the Letcher County Courthouse sometime in the 1950's
#athinsliceofanxiety #whitesburg #kentucky #bookmobile #history #oldphotos #letchercounty #hometown #anothertime

MMFinck Pls explain. Such an intriguing post. Pls share. Thx. (edited) 6y

Wellreadhead Sure. I don‘t know who took the photo or who is pictured in the photo, but it was taken in the same town that I am originally from and I just thought that it was a cool picture, lol 6y

Ericalambbrown @Wellreadhead love the pic! I come from a looonnngg line of hillbillies in Missouri - I love this sort of history! 6y

Wellreadhead @Ericalambbrown 😎 6y

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MrBook

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Meeting up with a patron for a fundraiser dinner for our #bookmobile! Steak for my library? Aw, hell yeah! 😎😋

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DGRachel Nice! 6y

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DivineDiana

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Here she is “The Book Fairy”! Thank you so much for your kindness and bringing a carload of books to share with fellow Littens! #phillymeetup2

EadieB

BookMaven407 Great outfit!!! 💜 6y

DivineDiana @BookMaven407 It was the perfect ensemble for a Litsy Meetup! 😉 6y

CatLass007 I love that dress! I think I saw it on eBay for 90 some dollars. But it‘s no longer available now. I‘m so envious that you have it! 6y

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DivineDiana @CatLass007 Unfortunately, I am not the lucky owner. 😉 That is the incomparable @EadieB ! 😀 (edited) 6y

CatLass007 Lucky woman @EadieB 6y

EadieB @BookMaven407 @DivineDiana @CatLass007 Thanks! My dress is a Tommy Hilfiger which I saw on Facebook a few years ago. It was about $100 but I had to have it. Thank goodness my husband believes in “you see it, you like it, you buy it!” Today was great fun and it was nice meeting everyone. Hope everyone enjoys their books! Looking forward to next time! (edited) 6y

Purrfectpages Great dress! 6y

Quirkybookworm Adore the dress! Looks fabulous on you! 6y

ValerieAndBooks When I was trying to find you all, when I saw @EadieB ‘s dress I knew this was the place 😊 !! 6y

DivineDiana @quirkyblogger Thank you! Not me! 😉 It looks fab on @EadieB ! 6y

DivineDiana @ValerieAndBooks Same! So good to see you and meet your husband! Sorry, I didn‘t get the chance to say goodbye. 😢 6y

lildeb_8 It was so nice to meet you! Thank you for sharing your books! My son has already picked up one of the Stephen King novels and took it to work to read for his lunch break. 6y

DivineDiana @lildeb_8 So nice to meet you! And that your son is a reader! But I can‘t take credit for the books! That goes to @Eadie who is pictured here! I was just the photographer! 😉❤️📚 (edited) 6y

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EadieB

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Look for Eadie‘s Philadelphia Litsy 700 Free Books bookmobile at tomorrow‘s #Phillymeetup2 at Spruce Street Harbor. From 1:30 to 3:30. We will be meeting at the North Hammock area. Bring tote bags for your free books! I will get there early and I will be parking as close as I can to our meeting area.

LiteraryinPA, Jess, ValerieAndBooks, Cinfhen, jessberk13, amywithbooks, BarbaraTheBibliophage, Captivatedbybooks, DivineDiana, Robothugs, Rory, niftytiffd, BookBabe, MrBook, wanderer15, MicheleinPhilly, DanaManiac, TsundokuAleax, ErinGoBragh1011, TieDyeDude, phatsallylee, Librarybelle, lildeb_8, Lmstraubie, Billypar, mrozzz, GripLitGrl, rather_be_reading, BookBee89, MicrobeMom, BookaholicNatty

BookaholicNatty Yay @EadieB I can‘t wait I‘m going to try to get there early too so I can try to get books back to my car. Your car is going to be packed to the max with 700 books!!! 6y

EadieB @BookaholicNatty well I will bring as many as I can. 6y

rather_be_reading thts amazing! 6y

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Captivatedbybooks I just bought shelves from Lowe‘s to put my books up before i get kicked out 😂😂😂 6y

Librarybelle I‘m going to miss the fun tomorrow and the opportunity to miss you in person! What a wonderful gesture! Have fun tomorrow! 6y

DivineDiana @EadieB You are “The Book Fairy” on wheels!!! So excited to meet you! ❤️ 6y

EadieB @Librarybelle Where do you live? We could meet for lunch maybe? 6y

EadieB @DivineDiana Can‘t wait to meet you too! 6y

Librarybelle @EadieB I‘m in the Harrisburg area 🙂 6y

EadieB @Librarybelle if you give me your address I will check your TBR and mail you some books. Harrisburg is a little far about 2 hours from me. (edited) 6y

TsundokuAleax This is so exciting. 6y

Librarybelle @EadieB That is so nice of you! Thank you so much! Lunch would be a wonderful idea, so maybe the next time I find myself near Philly, I‘ll let you know. Do you mind if we exchange email addresses? I can send you my mailing address through that. My email address is my Litsy name at gmail dot com. 6y

EadieB @librarybelle my email address is eadieburke@Comcast.net. I actually live In Perkasie in Bucks County. (edited) 6y

Librarybelle @EadieB Bucks County has some beautiful scenery! Again, thank you so much! ❤️ 6y

EadieB @librarybelle we could meet halfway. I take 78 when I go to Harrisburg. (edited) 6y

niftytiffd Awesome... Thank you, @EadieB! I look forward to meeting you!! 6y

Librarybelle @EadieB That would work! My next few weeks are not that good, but we can talk about it through email. 6y

EadieB @librarybelle ok I‘ll wait to hear from you. 6y

DanaManiac Thanks so much! I‘ll def come early to check out your inventory! 🤗 6y

Cinfhen I‘m loving this post and the entire thread‼️❣️‼️can‘t wait until tomorrow 😁 6y

EadieB @Dana1084 Good idea! I‘ll post tomorrow when I leave my house. I hope to leave by 10:00 and get there by 11:00. I will need help emptying the car. If enough people come early then we can spread out the boxes wherever and people can pick and choose. 6y

DanaManiac Okay perfect! I‘ll look out for your post and can definitely help set up! 6y

js0315 Oh my goodness, how do we get one setup in Florida? Who's brilliant idea was this? 6y

Lmstraubie Holy moly - Book Fairy Extraordinaire!!! 6y

ValerieAndBooks Looking forward to meeting you!! I will be there closer to two pm I think 😊 6y

EadieB @Lmstraubie Well thank you for the title! I really like to make people happy and that makes me happy. Spreading the love especially with books is a lovely thing! lol 6y

EadieB @ValerieAndBooks I‘m checking out your TBR list and I‘ll pull some books that I have and then you can tell me if you still want them and I will set them aside for you. 6y

EadieB @ValerieAndBooks I have Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively and The Golden Notebook by Lessing for you. Do you still want those? 6y

ValerieAndBooks @EadieB how kind of you to take the time to look at my TBR 😊! Yes I would be interested in those books— thank you! 6y

EadieB @ValerieAndBooks ok I put them in a special bag for you. 6y

MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y

Captivatedbybooks @js0315 we started it last year. Not sure who was the idea from. Just make a post for florida and your area and see who replies. I know there‘s alot of littens in FL 6y

EadieB @Librarybelle just checked your TBR list. I have I Let You Go which I am reading in August, whiskey in small glasses, truly madly guilty and The Progeny. I will try to read these in August and then I can send them to you. 6y

js0315 @Captivatedbybooks Thank you! I'll see what I can do! 6y

Librarybelle @EadieB Thanks! Take your time! ❤️ 6y

ErinGoBragh1011 I am so glad I got to meet you @EadieB you are so sweet. Since we are so close we should plan brunch. 6y

EadieB @ErinGoBragh1011 where exactly do you live? 6y

ErinGoBragh1011 @EadieB I live in West Philly. Right near Fairmount Park 6y

EadieB @ErinGoBragh1011 I‘m in Perkasie near Quakertown in Bucks County. I suppose we could meet 1/2 way. 6y

ErinGoBragh1011 Damn! If only I had met you a few months ago when I was living in Lansdale and working in Ambler @eadieb 6y

EadieB @ErinGoBragh1011 where do you work now? 6y

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MrBook

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Here it is on the inside! 😊😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Does your library have a #bookmobile?

#LitsyLovesLibraries

Literary_Siren Our school district does. And they have a job opening for an assistant bookmobile librarian that I‘m thinking about applying for! 6y

CouronneDhiver Awesome 6y

jillannjohn When I was a child and visiting my family here where I live now, Assumption Parish didn‘t have a library 😮 All the kids were so excited when the bookmobile came in the summer! 6y

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Libby1 The tagged book is from a funny series about a mobile librarian in #NorthernIreland . The main character is a Jewish vegetarian from London. You can imagine he finds it difficult to fit into rural, meat-loving, Protestant/Catholic divided Northern Ireland!

The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books

Emily92Bibliophile Unfortunately our public library does not ( that was something I pushed for when I worked there) but the school district I now work as a elementary Librarian Does have one and I get to work it this summer 🎉🎉🙌🏻 6y

Hooked_on_books Our library is a bit too small for a bookmobile, but I fondly remember the bookmobiles of my childhood. ☺️ 6y

SilversReviews No, but it looks pretty cool. 6y

SilversReviews @Librocubicularist87 That would be such fun. Best of luck. 6y

Literary_Siren @SilversReviews thank you! I‘ve been trying to get hired at a library for a very long time but keep being turned down. I think this is a perfect foot in the door! 😊 6y

SilversReviews @Librocubicularist87 Let us know....I hope you snag the job. :) 6y

Sharpeipup We are getting one. Just suggested a name for it. 6y

Peddler410 In the summer our library does a Pop Up Library — visits some of the elem schools, nature center, etc. Kids don‘t need a library card to check out — sign out the book and return at Library or another pop up location. 6y

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MrBook

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Today is my first day helping out on our #bookmobile 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!!! Filling in for a colleague.

Lots of fun was had!!!

#LitsyLovesLibraries

Ddzmini I loved the bookmobile 😍📚📖 6y

Mdargusch That is so cool! 6y

BibliOphelia When I was a kid, my local library was awesome, but there was nothing quite as cool as the bookmobile. 📚🚌 6y

deactivate I have never seen an actual bookmobile, and I‘m always excited to see that they still exist! The bookstore that I ran constructed a mobile bookshelf that could be attached to almost any bike and we would ride around with our little free library, which was always a hoot. 6y

CAnne I lived in rural Indiana as a young child and fondly remember the bookmobile summer visits. 6y

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JoScho

Bookmobiles in America: An Illustrated History | Orty Ortwein

Here are some more pics from my Indie book mobile. They had blind date with a book and a table dedicated to local authors. It is so cute! Olivia is the Corgi ❤️

xicanti

xicanti HI, OLIVIA! 7y

ReadingVampire Oh wow it‘s like the Jenny Colgan book! What a cool idea! Do they move around?

Bookshop on the Corner

JoScho @Puredragonstar they do! Today they are set up beside a brewery and are doing all sorts of fun events for Independent Book Store Day, like signings and readings at the brewery. 7y

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ReadingVampire Wow!!! What fun!!! 😔 Sigh... I wish we had cool bookstores. I just have to wait to move. This is which a cool concept! 7y

JoScho @Puredragonstar we don‘t have too many either but this one is for sure a treasure. 7y

Burghbookaddict The sploot! 😍 7y

Cinfhen Lovely!!! 7y

mrp27 Very cool! I've never been to a book mobile. 7y

sudi This is amazing, it reminds me of an ice-cream van 😃 7y

TheBookkeepersApprentice This is so cool! 7y

Samplergal I LOVED the bookmobile as a kid and as a young mother. 7y

BookNerd9906 ❤️splooting🐶 7y

tammysue How neat, I wish our town had fun events like this! 👍🏻 7y

BookaholicNatty This rocks!!!!!! 7y

Austen_Nerd This is awesome 7y

TNbookworm How cool! Love this! 7y

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JoScho

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How stinking cute is this?! They turned this old camper into a mobile bookstore! I would not have found it if I hadn‘t been googling independent book stores. I will post more pictures later of the inside and the bookstore Corgi ❤️❤️❤️ #isupportindies

BookaholicNatty

DivineDiana Love this! 7y

Phlamboyant I'm suddenly rethinking every retirement plan I've ever had. Loooove this. 7y

xicanti I can't wait to see the bookstore Corgi! 7y

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jillannjohn Love this! 7y

underthebelljar Mobile bookstore camper AND a store corgi?! You‘ve found heaven 😍 7y

JoScho @BookishJess lol that is exactly what my husband said when I sent him pictures of the camper and the corgi 😊 7y

JoScho @Phlamboyant isn‘t it such a great idea?! (edited) 7y

Mollyanna That‘s wonderful! 7y

Itchyfeetreader Amazing! 7y

Kaye How neat is that ? (edited) 7y

LeahBergen Love it!! 7y

GripLitGrl Love it❣ 7y

BookaholicNatty @JoScho hands down the best indie I have seen today!!!! ❤️❤️📚😍 7y

epsitawithane Quite handy 7y

JoScho @BookaholicNatty it is super cute! And two young women are the owners and I love that! 7y

BookaholicNatty @JoScho yessss!!!! That makes it even better. So they travel around the US and set up in different locations or is it like a set location they are in? 7y

JoScho @BookaholicNatty they aren‘t in a set location but only travel around Charleston County I think. Today they were partnered up with a brewery for author signings and readings. 7y

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LauraBeth

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When you go to deposit money in your kid‘s school lunch account and a pop-up box asks if you‘d like to donate to a bookmobile. It‘s like they KNOW I‘ll open my wallet for that! 😂

Tamra 😂 Of course! 7y

Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 7y

Tanisha_A 😂 Smart! 7y

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Emily92Bibliophile

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WISD is having a STEM Expo, and the librarians of the district are braving the winds! With our books, we Give them to the kids- we have so many extra books in the Library, and we have so many donated to us, we just want to encourage READING for every age group and not have them worry about turning in a book back.

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Zoe_reads_books

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Spotted in middle of nowhere Ohio

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DrexEdit

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My local library system recently bought a new bookmobile. They are auctioning off the old one (pictured above). Anybody need one? 😂😂😂 I did consider for a hot second how useful having a bookmobile around would be. 😄😄

WanderingBookaneer 🙋🏻 7y

Laura317 You should definitely get it and move to Scotland, whereupon you will fall in love with a sheep herder. Oh wait. That was a book. Nevermind. 7y

DrexEdit @Laura317 lol! 😁 7y

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MrBook

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The #Bookmobile is in for the day 😊👍🏻! Does your library have one, and does it have its own garage? #LitsyLovesLibraries

JacqMac When I was a kid, the bookmobile was my lifeline. Just seeing it warms my heart. ❤️ 7y

DocBrown https://storycorps.org/animation/the-bookmobile/ 7y

Dolly I my area ( western Mass) we have a regional bookmobile. I never thought about where it's housed. 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 So cool! I grew up on LI and we had a bookmobile that would sell books. I remember the well to do kids always coming out with loads of books and wishing I were them. Lol. I think I could buy maybe 2, which was still very fortunate. It was definitely something to look forward to during the school year! (edited) 7y

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y

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Matilda

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Fund 'em Friday! The classroom has already been funded 🎉 but there's a bookmobile that can use your help 🚎! Donate and/or signal boost to get kids needed books: http://bookriot.com/2017/05/12/action-item-summer-book-mobile-middle-schoolers-a...

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MrBook

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Today is #NationalBookmobileDay 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!! Here's a picture of my library's bookmobile. It's been running for a long time now. Does your library have one? 🤞🏻#LitsyLovesLibraries

JanuarieTimewalker13 That's great!! I don't think my library has one, however, I remember how my heart would leap at the mere mention of the bookmobile coming to my grammar school...that was thrilling! 8y

Graciouswarriorprincess My old library system had one but alas my new one does not. 😰 8y

Serotonin Ooo, I remember those! Loved them 👍 8y

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Lmstraubie I love, love, loved when the bookmobile came to my school when I was little. I can't remember seeing one anywhere in our area for a very long time. 😕 8y

Eggs I remember those! Why did they vanish? 8y

[DELETED] 206653737 Our library used to have a bookmobile. Now all the local libraries exchange books and have done away with the mobile, but man does that bring back some childhood memories! 8y

Books88 When I lived in Illinois they had one, but not in Michigan :( 8y

Lindy We've got an updated version: epl2go vans: "We bring the library to you, creating pop-up library spaces in parks, schools, city facilities, recreation centres, agencies and businesses. Get a library card, return a book, play with a robot and take part in a program right in your neighbourhood." 8y

Cortg We used to have one. We are trying to get another one. I would love to drive it!!! 8y

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