The Superheroes of Victoria and the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network teamed up to celebrate Free Comic Book Day and placemaking with a Little Free Library Superhero Adventure on May 4.

Superheroes were stationed at four little free libraries in Fernwood handing out comic books and graphic novels to visitors. Some of them on hand included Ant Man, Batman, Robin, and Captain America B次元官网网址� all volunteers from the Superheroes of Victoria.

B次元官网网址淩eading is a superpower. Literacy is a cause that has always been near and dear to the Superheroes of Victoria, so weB次元官网网址檙e excited to partner with the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network to share our love of reading with the Fernwood community,B次元官网网址� said Sonia Nicholson, marketing director for Superheroes of Victoria.

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Fernwood has some of the highest numbers of the book exchanges in Greater Victoria, according to the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network which helps promote, stocks and maps little free exchanges. Since 2017, the project has delivered more than 85,000 books to little free libraries across the CRD, mapped 835 and helped set up more than 125.

B次元官网网址淧lacemaking entails softening the hard edges of the city, and designing community spaces to help connect people, and we wanted to celebrate placemaking in the region in a super-powered way,B次元官网网址� said Teale Phelps Bondaroff, volunteer lead of the GVPNB次元官网网址檚 Pocket Places Project. B次元官网网址淚 was delighted to see so many young people come out and many of them were in costume as well, we had at least three Batpeople and the Spider-verse was very well-represented.B次元官网网址�

A growing number of little free libraries specialize in a certain type of book (poetry, childrenB次元官网网址檚 books, French books) while other are dedicated to sharing plants, seeds, toys, household items, board games, puzzles, art supplies, art, food, and more.

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