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I can't thank you all enough! All of these ideas are fantastic and I am so grateful for my smart, creative peers! Here they are.......... I am using that topic, but chose to put all the books that had green in the title. Lori, I am going to do a Green/Greene authors and editors display. Think John Green. The following bulletin board idea was on LM_NET recently. I saved it cuz I thought it was pretty ingenious, cheap and within my artistic skill set. I understand your trepidation regarding students not picking up green books. How about books that have stories that revolve up green themes / or environmental themes - i.e. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen? I'm sure there are others but that one seems to come quickly to mind. Good luck! Subject: Share: March Bulletin Board For our Middle/High School library we needed to update from our Valentine's bulletin board (multi-colored hearts with each of our student's names on them--small school so we get them all on). With a sub-district forensics meet being hosted here on Monday, the 22, we really wanted something fresh and new. Our solution: "Get Your Green On" in black & green letters, a huge shamrock cut from green bulletin board paper with the words, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle on the 3 leaves. Background is black & white newspaper. It was quick and easy and is very eye-catching. I'm planning to put out some books by Irish authors like Bog Child by Dowd, The Declaration by Gemma Malley, The New Policeman by Kate Thompson, Airman by Colfer, Angela's Ashes, etc. I also have some general stuff about Irish lore and such. You might feature Irish authors/poets vs. environment books. I am Protestant Irish, and on St. Patrick's Day, we wear orange not green. You might put up a display about Ireland in general and show what each "side" wears at that time. Might be interesting for the kids. Pick out books with green covers!! You'll be surprised how many you'll find that are green or predominantly green. Another possibility are authors by the name of green or gold or ireland or irish etc. Or just search for the keyword green. Of course here that will include lots of Green Bay Packers books--and those will get read!! Remember the old song "I'm looking over a four leaf clover"? How about "looking over a 4 leaf clover... to find a good book" then make shamrocks (easiest way is to make 4 hearts, over lap them and tape them together) and put a book cover over it .... I have done a display in the past with fiction books that take place in Ireland, by Irish authors and travel guides to Ireland. Kind of combined them into one display. What about Carl Hiassen's books? They are fiction and include environmental issues, not necessarily going green, but issues nonetheless. Maybe there are other fiction books in your collection that are similar? Or share the theme of helping our environment? You could still use the "going green" and use books that have green in the title or on the cover. I have done that using the colors red "red anything good" and orange "orange you glad we have books for you to read?" and pink "books that make me tickled pink" Stick with the "Going Green" theme but just highlight good/favorite books and add "Read, Renew, Return, Repeat" to highlight library usage. I wonder how many books you have with characters named Patrick... maybe you could do a kind of wise guy display - probably get a bigger reaction than on about a "good for you" St Patricks Day or Recycling - no? Lori Manning MacArthur High School Lawton, OK lorimanning1904@sbcglobal.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------