The Free Book Bus

10/13/2026

This was a catch and release at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Friends of the Library sale, but now I'm wishing I had bought it both for the shark content and the author's magnificent name 😊

10/09/2026

10/04/2026

I bought a smaller car this summer - it turns out that 13 boxes of books fit in a Subaru! The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Friends of the Library sale is on, every day from 10-7 at Albemarle Square, until next Sunday. It's our biggest source of used books and we are well-stocked.

09/29/2026

Back to Greenstone, where everyone wanted to "practice driving" today 😊 We gave out a mix of books - everything from cookbooks to English language learning to Bluey coloring books 🚌

09/21/2026

Quotes from today's stop at Elk Hill Charlottesville: the student below wanted books on airplanes, and when they found these, said "These are my favorite!" And a teen student boarded the bus, saying, "You should have seen me run when I heard the book bus was here!" 🥹

09/15/2026

Pictures from today's stop at Foothills Children's Advocacy Center

09/14/2026

Introducing Emily ThomasClarke, our new program assistant! Emily will be taking the bus to some stops, which will allow us to say yes to more school events in particular. Emily has experience working with young children, environmental camps, and children with autism and ADHD. She's been accompanying me on stops since late June while learning to drive the bus, and will do her first solo stop this week!

09/12/2026

After choosing books at our Friday stop, one guest did a little boxing practice with everyone's favorite plush strawberry jam 🍓📚

08/25/2026

Kids at Greenstone loved picking out cute new pencil sharpeners, and all the new Bluey books. Thanks to Lynne Herman from Jackson-Via Elementary School for coming to see her students!

08/19/2026

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