{"id":14278,"date":"2026-03-14T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/?p=14278"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:46:52","slug":"an-opportunity-to-make-a-bookish-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/an-opportunity-to-make-a-bookish-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opportunity to Make a Bookish Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14280 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/LL.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A NZ initiative to improve literacy and life prospects for young children is now available through a charitable program called &#8220;Little Libraries&#8221; that provides attractive, child-height book stands in the shapes of bushes, trees and rocks. \u00a0Making the books available at eye level for children, in upright positions that make the different titles easy to see, results in a lot more casual engagement than books in a basket or on a shelf, where the narrow spines do not give a lot away. \u00a0Little Libraries has recently begun seeking supporters to be &#8220;Library Legends&#8221; by providing support for a title in 80 early childhood centres at $10\/book. \u00a0To find out more, you can visit their website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlelibraries.co.nz\">www.littlelibraries.co.nz<\/a>) or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/files\/2026\/03\/Become-a-Library-Legend.pdf\">download a leaflet<\/a>. \u00a0Just another example of the power of books in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NZ initiative to improve literacy and life prospects for young children is now available through a charitable program called &#8220;Little Libraries&#8221; that provides attractive, child-height book stands in the shapes of bushes, trees and rocks. \u00a0Making the books available at eye level for children, in upright positions that make the different titles easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}