Today, Maggie Stiefvater reminded me of one of my favorite display ideas with her Facebook Post for November 1st: "Today is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die." It is the opening line of The Scorpio Races. Using first lines is a great way to entice readers to pick up a book. Her post was accompanied by all the beautiful covers for the book around the world:
Here's how I use first lines in my library:
See Also: How to Print on Post-its as pictured above.
This idea came from Famous First Lines Book Display from YALSA Blog.
- Use First Lines as a Passive display as pictured above one book at a time
- Print them all out and use them to do passive booktalks. Teach students to place a hold on the titles they are interested in.
- Pull the physical books to do a book tasting.
- Wrap the books in colorful paper with just the first lines pasted on the front for a "Blind Date with a Book" display.
- Use them to create a Bulletin Board:
The Minions of books idea came from Lorri's School Library Blog
Here's some of the materials to create the bulletin board above (the minions I made from construction paper with circle cutters and oval cutting tools from Creative Memories):
Here is a collection of first lines that I have collected in Google Slides. The presentation contains links to the source material where the quotes were compiled.
Here's another idea from WHAT YOUR TEEN LIBRARIAN DOES ALL DAY.
I spotted this display at our local Barnes and Noble in Bella Terra, Huntington Beach. Can you guess the books?
I have done something similar to this by having students help me cover the books and paste the first lines on the outside. Instead of completely wrapping the books, we made paper bag book covers instead, so they are easy to remove and can be reusable.
If you have any great first lines to add to this collection, contact me at
Heather Gruenthal, CSLA Historian
@hgruenthal on Twitter
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