HIT:Teen Read Week Displays

[Patricia Stewart <stewardp@bellsouth.net>]

Many thanks to Angie, Ruth, Cyndi, Cindy and Sally for their "Reading
Rocks" ideas.  Their wonderful ideas follow.

I created a display using the "popular" teachers around school in a READ
pose with their favorite book.  I had a journalism photographer student
take the pictures of the teachers with their book and then we blew them
up to poster size.  I put the words READ at the top of each poster and
displayed them outside thelibrary.  Kids _loved_ it!  Might want to try
it using the kids in the READ pose. (Angie from Columbus, IN)

Our middle school media specialist has collected good size rocks (I
envisioned them to be about the size of footballs to basketballs) and
painted them. She's going to paint "Reading Rocks" on each one and place
them on tables in her library. I suggested resting them on the edge of
an open book as if they were actually reading. (Ruth from Oelwein, IA)

Along with the theme of "Reading Rocks", we decided to bring back the
"pet rock", only call him a "readingrock".  One of my clerks went to a
landscaping service and got 200 small rocks, which have now been painted
yellow (school colors) and have had eyes put on them.  They are SO
CUTE!!  I'm going to have the art department make me a "reading rock"
figure to put in the library, too.(Cyndi from Huthinson. KS)

How 'bout continuing your 60's theme with other memorabilia from that
decade and books
published then.  Late 60's was the dawning of YA lit.  Pigman was
published 30 years ago in 1969.  Have staff bring in items.  You could
hang 45's of music from that era.  Perhaps a local antique store would
loan you collectibles like lunch boxes and toys from that time. (Cindy
from Holland, MI)

Begin with your media center "regulars" and ask them to select their
favorite book in the media center.   In each of these books place a
strip of paper (about 3"wide) with the student's name written on the top
and inserted in the book so that the name shows (like a bookmark
sticking out of the top).  Then as kids (or staff) come in, ask them to
select their favorite books and do the same.  Display all in the
showcase as "Our picks" or "Our favs" or....whatever.  My showcase is
right next to the media center so I had no trouble allowing anyone who
wanted to to select a book from there to check out.  If that is too
inconvenient for you, just add to the collection over the next few weeks
and then move the books with or without the student's names, to a
shelftopdisplay for check out.  In the showcases I usually string some
of the title up with fishing line so I can hang them on the backboard
and have covered Velveta boxes w/plain dark green Contact paper so that
I can use them as "stands" to vary the height. (Sally from Frederick,
MD)

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