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Book Week 2019: Reading Is My Secret Power Display

Book Week 2019 – Reading is my Secret Power Display

The theme for Book Week 2019 is Reading Is My Secret Power and there are so many ways you could interpret this theme for display ideas.  Traditionally, I decorate our circulation desk window (four, large tinted windows that sit behind out prominent circulation desk) with some interpretation of the CBCA artwork.

This year the CBCA Book Week 2019 artwork has been created by Bob Graham.

Here is my interpretation.

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Book Week 2019: Bookopolis Display

Book Week 2019 – Bookopolis Display

The theme for Book Week 2019 is Reading Is My Secret Power and I have had a lot of fun coming up with different displays to showcase this theme around the library. For our junior reading room, I went with Bookopolis: Home of those with secret powers. It takes the angle of superheroes, something that is eternally popular with our young readers, especially with the release of the Marvel Avengers: The Endgame movie earlier in the year. The display is bright and was very easy to put together.

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Book Week 2019: Costume Ideas

Book Week 2019 – Costume Ideas

Book Week is often celebrated with a themed dress-up day. For some, this is the highlight of the school calendar, for others they dread the day. Here are a few costume ideas that link into the theme for Book Week 2019: Reading Is My Secret Power.

2019 Book Week web banner 1200x500The theme and official artwork offers plenty of inspiration for costumes: powers, superpowers, secrets, transformations, hidden identities.

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Display: Very Hungry Caterpillar Display – 50 Years

Display – The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Celebrating 50 Years

In 2019 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle will celebrate 50 years in print. To celebrate we decided to turn the Very Hungry Caterpillar day (March 20th) into a gigantic birthday celebration.

For years now, our Junior Reading Room has hosted a giant Hungry Caterpillar poster, created by the students many years ago. It is a much-loved favourite of our Head of Library Services and so it has held pride of place in the Reading Room. So, I decided to design and place the Very Hungry Caterpillar 50 Years display around this old poster.

The giant hanging leaf is a new addition to the reading room, purchased from Ikea, and it fit nicely into the display.

With a lot of help from our awesome student library helpers, we made 3D fruit for the Caterpillar to munch on, thanks to Mr Printables for the awesome templates. All the needed fruit is available in the free downloadable pack, we just had to colour the oranges orange to transform them from lemons. We also used these 3D fruits to create headbands to wear throughout the week (any excuse to dress up). We just hot-glued the fruit to a plastic headband.

Our handy Cricut cutting machine cut lots of coloured dots, which we strung together to add brightness to the area. (These could also be used for a Roald Dahl display, as it kind of looked like Willy Wonka had thrown a party with all the colour). A 3D caterpillar was made with styrofoam balls, green and red paint, a purple straw, goggly eyes and more hot glue.

Hungry Hunt

As well as dressing up throughout the week of celebrations, we also ran a Hungry Hunt. Students had to find the fruit cutouts hidden around the library and write down the secret clue hidden with each piece of fruit. Their answers went into the draw to win this awesome prize pack – thanks to Penguin Australia for previous supplying us with Hungry Caterpillar Posters, which were both included in the prize pack and included in the display.

Book Week 2019: Display Ideas

Book Week 2019 – Display Ideas

The theme for Book Week 2019 is Reading Is My Secret Power.

2019 Book Week web banner 1200x500

The theme and official artwork offers plenty of inspiration for displays: powers, superpowers, secrets, transformations, hidden identities.

Powers and Superpowers

There are plenty of ideas surrounding “Reading is my superpower”, so I am planning to use those ideas and adapt them for a fresh Book Week look.

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Book Week 2019: Theme Announcement

Book Week 2019

The theme for Book Week 2019 has been announced – Reading is my Secret Power

Book Week 2019 will run from the 17 to the 23 of August 2019. More details are available on the CBCA website.

Now that the theme has been announced, it’s time to start brainstorming for display, decoration and costume ideas.

The official artwork for Book Week 2019 has been designed by Bob Graham. You can access the banner and free email signature, social media tile and letter head on the CBCA website. You can also access a range of merchandise from the CBCA store.

There are plenty of ways to interpret the 2019 theme. Here’s just a few ideas.

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