Who Kidnapped the Easter Bunny?

By Kateri Wilson
There is lots of fun behind this new display by Kateri. Read about it, and get some more ideas, from her excellent Blogs:

Bear Bahoochie: The Snow Days and Holidays of a Crafty Librarian Guider.
JYHS Library Blog

Thanks for sharing once again Kateri.

Free Your Mind: Read Every day

By Glee Stormont
Spring has sprung in Kailua and Glee has sent us her wonderful celebratory display to see.
I love the way the butterflies morph into books.
I think this display could be used successfully at other times of the year too.

Fuel Your Mind

By Elaine Pearson
I have used this simple display to promote some fact books, maths books, car books and science books. You could, of course, use this to promote anything from your collection. I have found that the boys have particularly gravitated towards it and I have taken advantage of their interest.
Try 'Fuel Your Imagination' for promoting fiction books.
The fuel gauge is from Google Images and has been enlarged.

Across the Story Bridge

By Narelle Robertson
Thanks to Narelle, the AudioVisual Technician from Santa Sabina College [Sydney], for sharing this dramatic display idea which she used for Book Week 2010. I really like the idea of making 'books' out of old VHS boxes.

This is what she says about the display:
'Here are some photos of our library display for bookweek 2010
It was very simple to make.
We used old VHS tape boxes with photocopies of book covers inserted.
Then we drilled a hole throught the boxes to ‘stack’ them to make pylons.
Then using a plank of wood with a hole drilled into it at each end, we built our bridge.
We used old plastic tubs painted as bricks donated by boost juice,
We placed house bricks (which had holes in them) in the base of the tubs to anchor the whole bridge.
We then printed the banner associated with book week, and added our cut-out children.

Fill Your Trunk With Books

By Tameka To
Here's another display from Tameka with a strong visual image and message. It certainly draws your attention to the books on display. To fill in some extra space in the background she added some interesting facts about elephants. Thanks for sharing Tameka.

To find other displays by Tameka just type 'Tameka' in the search box on the Library Displays home page.

National Sea Week (New Zealand)

By Elaine Pearson

February 26 – 6 March 2011.
Sea Week is an annual event run by the NZ Association for Environmental Education. The theme for 2011 is Back to the Future! The culture, history and traditions of the sea. Kia kaha tangata moana!

For more details and some great free resources check out: NZAEE Sea Week

Our teachers went off to a paid union meeting yesterday afternoon and the students were sent home. I took the advantage of a quiet afternoon to prepare this display for Sea Week. I simply tore some strips of coloured sugar paper (courtesy Art Department) into wavy lines to create sea and sand, got some cheerful images of sea creatures from Google Images which I printed on white card, cut everything out and put it together on the display board. The poster was printed from the Sea Week website and laminated.

There is a wide choice of books to display, I found some books about sea life, some adventure sea stories and some fiction stories based on a sea theme. Don't forget Seal Boy which matches this year's theme well and Kevin Boon's Whalers and Sealers:

It's all about Love

By Elaine Pearson
I was sitting thinking about a display for Valentines Day. I haven't done one for a couple of years and have loads of new books to promote.
As I was pondering the International Students came into the library for a meeting and an idea popped into my head:
I gave them some pink paper and asked if they would write "I love you" in their home language. Later I cut them out into hearts and put them altogether to make this display. It pleased them to be asked and see their languages displayed.

This is a good site if you need more languages:
I love you in 100 languages


From GoodReads, "Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer -- they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along." Look out for the sequel: 'It's not summer without you'.

Lights..Camera..Read!

By Stephanie Huffnagle
Stephanie is a librarian at McGrath Library at Hilbert College, a small liberal arts college located outside of Buffalo, NY, USA.
She has shared this "Lights..Camera...Read!" display focusing on books turned movies and movies from books.
To get students interested in the display they gave away free bags of popcorn to the first 20 students who borrowed a movie.
Stephanie included some classics, such as 'To Kill a Mockingbird' along with some new favourites such as 'Twilight'.

I like the clever "lights..camera..read!" wording. It's lovely to see yet another successful interpretaion of the popular movies/books theme. Thanks Stephanie.

50 Book Challenge

By Elaine Pearson
Bridget Schaumann, the Librarian at King's High School, Dunedin, wanted a competitive reading competition which had decent prizes to raise the profile of reading in the school. We all know how boys love competition!
She developed the '50 Book Challenge' and has been willing to let others use the idea in their schools.

So, this year I am starting it here...
I am running it basically the same as Bridget with a few adaptions for our school. The students sign up to the competition. Books must be at least 180 pages long and must be from the school library. They have to fill in a short form to have each book counted. At the end of October every student who has reached 50 books receives a certificate and small prize. The student who has read the most books gets a $50 book token and two runners up get $25.

My display shows our two top readers from last year - a year 9 and year 12 student who tied at 104 books each. They are pictured next to the piles of books they read which they found for themselves and dutifully put back. It was very interesting and rewarding for them (and me)to physically see what seven months of reading looked like! I was so delighted that these two students were so proud of their achievement. It sent a great message to the rest of the school.
The books on display are generic collection of popular books - a good introduction for our Year 9's.

Many thanks to Bridget for sharing her idea.
Take a look at her school library Blog.
She has just posted a wonderful video of Julian Smith rapping about reading a book: King's High School Library Blog

Manga Mania

By Glee Stormont
Glee and her 13 year old son created this great display at the request of the librarian, it seems she has a stalwart group of young boys who can't get enough manga. It is actually quite popular here too, there are a group of students who enjoy creating the style themselves.






















Our students have enjoyed this book which includes digital animation.