Every year March creeps up too quickly, too quietly to make a Book Madness bulletin board.

Not this year though!

After 6 years in the children's department, I finally entered March prepared 😁

Several fellow staff members helped cultivate this list to make sure the best books were selected for our Sweet Sixteen.

These were all chapter books except two.

To give our younger patrons something familiar to vote on, we included The Berenstain Bears vs. Pete the Cat. Which, if I were to do this all over again, these would not have included these 2 since they did not fit the initial criteria.

In fact, I believe they swayed the vote. The younger kids wanted to vote for Pete the Cat and the older undecided voters also voted for Pete for (presumably) nostalgia reasons.

Side note: I probably wouldn't have cared so much if Pete hadn't posed such a threat to Harry.

Our ballots were designed to be cut into quarters.

This layout worked ok but when we repurposed "Book Madness" display to fit Alabama's Bicentennial SRP theme, we re-did the ballot.
This ballot was a half sheet and was easier to understand with the extra spacing.

"Alabama Madness" came down to Space & Rocket Center vs. Beaches.

All in all, this board was a lot of fun for the families. If you're considering doing one at your library, do it!