Day of the week or month in the title

Letter and journal format

Books in letter and journal format is also known as epistolary fiction. This is our display featuring those books.

Readbox (books that are movies)

Monkey Business

It's not Monkey Business....It's True!

There is another book with that title.

Two books with the same/similar titles are categories in the 50/50 Book Quest this year.

Display from the front

Close up of the sock monkey reading his book

Each book has a  bookmark inside that shows the other authors that have written the same title book.

Poster on the side of the display (designed in Canva)

Blind Date with a Book

It's time again for the 8th annual Blind Date with a Book. Our patrons love this display. This year to make it a little different we posted a category on each wrapped book that corresponds with our book quest year long challenge.  Barcode number is written on the back.

Big Books

Start your year with a big book. It may last longer than a New Year's resolution. Book display

Popular resolutions paired with thick books.

Big books (400+ pages)

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.

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.

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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Strange holidays

Did you know there is a "holiday" for everyday of the year? I put together this fun little table top display for National Chocolate Candy Day (December 28) and we are putting books with the theme "chocolate in fiction" on it for the rest of the month.

See other daily holiday ideas here http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/
or here https://nationaldaycalendar.com/

Holiday books

Snow is falling.....
           Books are calling.

Shelves filled with December holiday books.

Sides wrapped in shiny snowflake wrapping paper.

Honoring our Vets

We wanted to interview local veterans for Veteran's day on our weekly Facebook video, but they were camera shy. However they were very happy to share with us some of their favorite books. So we put together this display with the books they recommended. I tried to keep 5-10 books on the display during the month of November.

Idaho Authors

Book display with Idaho Authors.This was also one of the 50/50 Book Quest categories.

Day or Date in the title

One of our 50/50 book quest categories is a book with a day or date in the title. Library patrons were having a hard time finding items for this category so that became our next display.

Banned books 2018

Celebrating banned books week. However we kept the display up all month.

PBS Great American Read

After getting several questions about the Great American Read. This list contains 100 fantastic books. I decided we needed that to be the next display at the Marshall Public Library. More information on PBS Great American Read can be found at https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/. Artwork is from the PBS website.

#GreatReadPBS

Only placing a few books on the display at a time.

Each book has a green paper inside it that is the list that can be printed from the PBS website. https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/gar-phase-2/assets/TGAR_BookChecklist_2018.pdf