Banned Books Week 2018


Inspiration for this idea came from a picture off Pinterest of library books in a cage. The librarian who had done it had huge metal chains and locks around the cage, like the one you can buy from a Halloween store. (If I can ever find the original image I'll post it here!) The idea was absolutely adorable so I had to recreate it at my library!
Instead of a cage, I used an Extra Large dog crate.

We made CAUTION/ BANNED BOOKS tape with yellow crepe streamer and the words written over it. This is taped around the cage in no rhyme or reason.

For the banners, we printed off the letters onto cardstock and taped them onto pages torn out from a discarded book. The edges of the cardstock was aged with a stamp pad. These were hung to use up the dead space up at the top of the crate.

We also wrapped a spare box in these pages too to set books on top of. Just to add a bit of dimension.

Each book had a disclaimer attached to its jacket giving the reason why it was either banned or challenged.

Here's a link to the PDF of the book jacket covers!

We had lots of positive feedback on this display. And a good bit of people asking why these books were in a cage.

If you have access to a dog crate or any type of cage, this is definitely an attention grabbing display!

 Thanks to this big lug for giving up his crate for the week!

💚💛💜

& YA book display

And & And & And & And...





Our Book List:
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan
Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway
Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Me, Him, Them and It by Caela Carter 
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang 
The Ring and The Crown by Melissa De La Cruz
The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
The Wicked and The Just by J. Anderson Coats
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell


💚💛💜