{"id":214956,"date":"2025-10-21T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:39:08","slug":"hartlepool-morpeth-and-redcar-given-little-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214956\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartlepool, Morpeth and Redcar given &#8216;little libraries&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New &#8220;little libraries&#8221; have opened as part of Penguin Books&#8217; 90th birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 2,000 towns and villages applied to receive a little library from the company with just 90 being successful, including Morpeth, in Northumberland, and the Teesside towns of Hartlepool and Redcar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The publisher gives each new library 25 books to launch a free exchange service managed by a local steward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyndsay Hogg, steward of the Hartlepool library on Worset Lane, said she hoped it would become a landmark for people in the area to walk to and &#8220;share the joy of reading&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New &#8220;little libraries&#8221; have opened as part of Penguin Books&#8217; 90th birthday celebrations. More than 2,000 towns and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}