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

Happy National BFF Day

Okay, so maybe I added the extra F, but I think if you're best friends, then you are best friends for ever. And YA has SO many great friendship books. Here are just a few of my favorite friends.

Anne and Diana

Harry, Hermoine, and Ron

Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena

Jane and Lizzie

Penny and her friends:

Who are your favorite friends from literature?

Review: Wish

Olivia doesn't know what to do anymore. She feels nothing, nothing since her twin sister died. She didn't feel anger when her family decided to move back to her mother's family home. She didn't feel sad when her parents drifted away in their own grief too tired to be there for her. She didn't feel excited, scared, or nervous to be the new girl at school and start her life all over again.

When she needs a dress for a welcome party, she takes her sister's dress to a seamstress to fix. Instead of fixing the dress, she gains a completely different dress - that grants wishes.

Olivia only wants one thing in the world - her sister back. Voila, her sister comes back as a ghost to help guide her through life. But is she living her life or the life that her sister might lead? Will she stop being scared and start wanting to life again and starting feeling emotions?

My Thoughts: I'd heard such good things about this book that I couldn't wait to read it. I loved the different layers. Yes, there was the layer of a death in the family and the family working through their grief. There was the layer of a new girl in school and a girl attempting to find a place for herself. There was a girl who fell for a boy who might be off limits. Finally, there was a girl looking for find her true identity - separate from her previous life and from her dead sister.

The Cover: I LOVE it!

Source: My Library