Arts and Crafts: Ornaments

Our craft project for adults this month was Swedish star ornaments out of old books pages.

Arts & crafts night is a new program for adults.

Cook book group

The theme for November's discussion was: COOKIES!
Instead of choosing one book for us all to pick a recipe from. I let our members choose any cookie recipe they wanted. All were delicious!

Arts & Crafts for adults

We are starting a new program for adults.... Arts and crafts night.

Our first craft was decorating book bags. We did this on canvas bags with fabric markers.

Food for fines

Every November we do a food drive for our local food bank. However, the bonus is that we will clear your library fines. 1 can equals $1.

What are you Afraid of?

Scary books with a haunted house and "scary" black and white photos in the windows.
Books displayed are only from the adult fiction area.

Where in the world is that author from?

Where in the world is that author from?

Kind Week

Bulletin board for Kind Week
Kindness is A-MAZE-ING!

With quotes and books and being kind to others.

Setting Not on Earth

To go with our summer reading theme and one of the 50/50 Book Quest categories here is our display for books with a setting Not on Earth. Rocket was made from lemonade containers covered in foil, purple construction paper, and paper cups covered in duct tape.

To the Library and Beyond!

Betcha Can't Read Just One

Chips are so salty and delicious that it is often hard to only eat one.
Lay's has the great tag line "Betcha can't eat just one."
For this display on series I took that tag line and changed it to "Betcha can't read just one."

Recycled old chip bags to go with the theme

The bags are attached to the sides of the display.

Front of display filled with books that are the first books in their series.

"chips" coming out of the bag have titles of different series available at our library.

Time for Shorts!...Short Stories

As the weather starts to become nice and warm library patrons begin to wear shorts. So taking this and playing with words. It is Time For Shorts......Short Stories.

Clothesline with shorts and books

 View from front of display

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Yoda

May 4th is also known as Star Wars day "May the fourth be with you."
This year I instead of a book display I decided to do a bulletin board staring Yoda.

READ you will

Much KNOWLEDGE you will have

Fairy Tales Retold

Fairy tales and folklore retold is a category in the 50/50 Book Quest.

Several books from children's fiction, young adult and adult are all on display.

Our toad puppet makes the perfect topper for this display. A paper crown was added. So far I've only seen one patron kiss him. 

Books with color in the title

Books are like gold display with a "golden book at the end of a rainbow. 

A book with a color in the title is one of the 50/50 Book Quest categories. 

And rainbows are perfect for March. 

Marshall Madness 2019

In years past for MPL Battle of the Books we had popular books "battle" for the winners spot with patrons voting through a bracket style tournament, but this year it's all about the authors in MPL's 2019 Marshall Madness: Authors Edition.

Starting February 25, the library will be hosting a tournament among authors that have been nominated by librarians. The authors have been fit into 4 teams; Classics, Nonfiction, Youth, and Series. Each week residents will cast their ballots for which authors should advance to the next round.  Each "team" will have an author that continues to the final four. Then, from there, our winning author will be voted to take the #1 spot for 2019 Marshall Madness: Authors Edition.

Bracket style tournament to keep track of winners moving up in each round

Don't know an author? Lift the flap to reveal a few of their titles.

Voting  has narrowed them down to top eight.

UPDATE: We have a winner!

2019 winning author is J. K. Rowling with team Series.

Blind Date with a Book

Every February we do a display called "blind date with a book." This will be the 7^th year that we wrap the books so that you cannot see the title or peek inside. Books are like a box of chocolates.... You never know what you're going to get. But we will let you know the flavor.   

 We have labeled the books with a sticker like romance, mystery, or scifi. To mix things up a bit this year we are telling you how your “blind date” will end. In other words the last sentence of the book.