Book Display Ideas: April

Spring is here! Flowers are starting to pop out. Rain is upon us. Soon the grass will green up and leaves will appear. Here are a few book display suggestions for the month.

Check out last year's post for more topical ideas.

Other Dates:

Week 2: Garden Week

Flowers

Book Display Idea: Books with Flowers on the cover

Movie Dates:

April 7th: Going In Style

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541069889206/

Book Display Idea: Heist Books

April 14th: Fate of Furious

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541070116910/

Book Display Idea: Books with Cars on the cover

April 14th: Lost City of Z

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/81064862013944225/

Book Display Idea: Survival Books

March Display Ideas

Here's the post from last year - be sure to check out the Women's Books. This year I'd use the tagline Nevertheless, She Persisted

More Social Justice Book Displays. Maybe a book display with books including Trans characters.

March 23rd: National Puppy Day. Maybe a display about dog books or books with dogs

 I'll add movie tie ins

Superhero Books / Anti-hero Books

YA Books into Movies / Books where you relive one day

Fairy Tale display

Very Old Book List to get you started

February Book Display Ideas

Here is last year's list to check out. Plus I'm adding a few ideas from Pinterest. 

February 12th: Grammy Awards

Book List: Music Books

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/85427724152252646/

Alternate Blind Date with Book:

First Lines

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/Aee1S5rdgdOmcn38SMnNAh-K394iPixdxjIHGIKrl9F40jDT7jXT-tg/

Interactive Display:

Love your Library

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AU0OJ88b4jfOHX0OCuUpFFJ3-1O6OitrV7phiU9ZgtU5Q70Tnr6gSkY/

Book Display Ideas: December

The cold weather should be upon us soon in New England, which is the perfect time to cuddle up with a good books. Here are some displays that might entice your patrons.

December is: 

Write a Friend Month

Display Ideas:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541078416879/

Book Lists: Epistolary Novels

December Dates:

December 9th: National Brownie Day

December 10th: National Pastry Day

Display Idea: Change the slogan but the background works

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541077379722/

Book List: Characters who Bake and fun looking cookbooks

Movie Tie Ins:

Rogue One:
Star Wars Books

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541078960046/

Assassin's Creed:

Assassin Books

La La Land

Books set in Hollywood or Actors/Actress Books

Monster Calls

From Page to Screen - an older list.

Holiday/Winter themed display ideas coming soon!

Book Display Ideas: Fall and November

Veteran's Day:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541078570702/

Fall Reading: new books / books with red, yellow, and orange covers

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541075574554/

or 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541075551409/

Cozy Reading:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541077373343/

Movie Tie-Ins:

Dr. Strange: Marvel books, superhero books, books with unexpected twists

Arrival: Aliens

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them: Fantasy Books

Edge of Seventeen: Drama drama drama

Book Display Ideas: August

Summer is starting to wind down, even though there's a month left to go. Already I'm seeing back to school items in the stores. And I cringe a little - but I can't lie - it also makes me want to be notebooks and fancy pens. If you're not quite ready to let go of summer, here are a few display ideas for your library. As always, the display pictures are from Pinterest unless otherwise stated. 

 August is:

Romance Awareness Month

Display Idea: Summer Romances or any romances.
I wrote up this blog post about Romance Awareness Month last year from the Hub blog

Book List: Here's one list and another list, plus one from the Hub blog

Display:

South Mississippi Regional Library! Romance Awareness Month.

3rd Week: Friendship Week

Display Idea: BFFs

Book List: Best friends - supportive friends

 Display

Paper Necklace

Summer Olympics 

Book List: Sports books or books about the Olympics

Display: Change up your reading display with book cover rings!

LA-DE-da Library 

Dates:

August 7th: Sister Day

Book List: A older list

Display: Sister quotes or famous sister pictures

Sister Quote 

August 9: Book Lover's Day

Book List: Books within Books (A post I wrote up a few years ago about a few favorites, and here for the Hub blog) Or Favorite books or books your patrons love

Display:

Keep Calm poster

Bookaholic Posters

August 26th: National Dog Day

Book Lists: Happy dog stories

Display: Pictures of dogs

Here's mine dressed up Harry Potter Style

Summer Reading: Display Ideas

I'm starting to think more and more about summer and trying to get everything ready to go to make it as smooth as possible. Summer's always super busy, but super fun. I love interacting with all the readers that come into the library and helping them pick out a book to read. And I love making displays to entice readers into picking up a great looking book.

Baseball

We set up a cool baseball one for the start of the season, so I'm looking for a new idea. Here's what I discovered while trying to think of a new idea.

Football

I posted these football ideas previously on the blog. 

 

Swimming/ Diving

Soccer

All Sports 

Display Ideas: April

Spring is here! Flowers are blooming. Rain is upon us. Soon the grass will green up and leaves will pop out. I just returned back to the librarian world and I'm excited about making more displays. I'll still talk about ideas, but also chat about some displays that I created.

April is:

Monthly:

National Humor Month

Display Ideas: Funny Books

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/44332377551859278/

Book Lists: humor

National Poetry Month

Display Ideas: Lots of variations of Poet Trees on Pinterest 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/67765169370507315/

Book Lists: Check out novels in verse or Book Riot's 100 must read novels in verse

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Display Ideas:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/92675704806796707/

Book Lists: From the photo on Pinterest or from the Hub blog

Weekly:

Library Week (week 1)

Display Ideas: Reasons to Love your Library

Add caption

Book Lists: Characters who love the library

Read a Road Map Week: (week 1)

Display Ideas: Read your way across the country

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AR_DbM16qlOrRKpMWbAk7T1eG5y3ws2mT174Bl4sAValDn5tCFy9pL0/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/116671446573886937/

Book Lists: Road Trip Books

National Karaoke Week (week 4)

Display Ideas:

Change this up a bit, but the records work

Book Lists: Main characters who sing

Days:

April 4th: Tell a Lie Day

Display Ideas: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Book Lists: Characters who Lie

April 15th: Titanic Remembrance Day

Display Ideas:

Book Lists: Titanic books, books about sinking ships, shipwrecked

April 18th: Newspaper Column's Day

Display Ideas:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/Ae2WNHN5sBufUKg7wIRnBKmlxZVpxML0F7ur53kgRHUHTIU4sVMxTOw/

Book Lists: Characters who write for their school newspaper