Last week, someone on TLC (the Texas librarians’ listserv) requested some ideas for book displays. Stella Gonzalez of San Antonio replied with a great and lengthy list of themes for book displays. Rita Wynn of Highland Park ISD posted some additional ideas geared specifically toward secondary libraries. I know that some of you have your student library workers create book displays each month. You might help them out and share these ideas with them. Do you have other displays that your readers enjoy? Post them in the comments!

Display Ideas:
Award winning books

Books build brains

Never judge a book by its movie — Books that have been made into movies

Bored? Read.

Caution: readers at work. – career books

Cookbooks with placemats, utensils, plates, pots, etc.

Craft & hobby books with items.

Don’t bug me, I’m reading — insects

Don’t drop the ball on books – sports books and balls

(also “A great book is always a slam dunk”)

Explore new frontiers—read! — explorers and explorations

Fee-fi-fo-fum – fairy tales

Get a clue – mystery books

Get wild and read – animal books

Get wrapped in reading – mummies

Go for the gold: Read! (during Olympics)

Joust read – medieval, Arthurian

Just read.

Library books and bytes – computer books & items

Libraries: linking tradition and technology

Read if you know what’s good for you – health books

Teacher’s photos of pets…pet books

Teacher’s photos of summer travel…country books & maps

Teacher silhouettes (use overhead)…holding favorite book

Teddy bears with books of bears (non-fiction and bear fiction)

“Transform yourselves” books & caterpillar/butterfly

Who’s Who – year beginning – pictures of admin & teachers.

Banned Books:

Books banned in Texas (from ACLU by year)

Books banned worldwide

Spring:

Books in Bloom: A Garden of Genres

Garden of reading, help your imagination grow

The Library: a garden for the mind

The Library: fertile ground for great ideas

Libraries grow good readers

Libraries: where ideas/readers bloom/blossom

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing – Cicero

Spring into books

Summer:

Beat the heat—read!

Fall:

Fall into a good book

Fall under the spell of a good book

Good books are a harvest of good ideas

Welcome back (books plus school articles)

Give thanks for great books!

Winter:

Books are Cool – penguins, snowmen

Chill out and read

A reading wonderland

Christmas around the world

Halloween:

Treat yourself to a good book

Favorite literary characters made with pumpkins (real or paper)

Reading is a “monstrous” adventure

Scare up a good book

Valentine’s Day:

Books we love. Hearts with person’s pic and book title.

Love comes in many languages — hearts and language dictionaries

Patriotic:

Free to read

Biographies/Special Interest:

Make your mark in the world (varied bios)

Women’s History & Biographies of women

Native Americans

Hispanic Heritage Month

Black American Month

National Poetry Month (April)

 Fairy tales for young adults

Camouflaged non-fiction (Girl, Interrupted; Seabiscuit; Not Without my Daughter; In Cold Blood; James Herriott books, etc.)

Chick Lit

Adventure stories

Dragons

Oldies but Goodies