One of the things I have recently done in the children's room is to create Picture Book City.
I chose categories from our most popular and most requested picture book categories, created new spine labels for them, chose a color coded cover and changed their location in the computer. The staff has been really receptive to this new shelving unit, they love how easy it is to shelve the books. Since the categories are small, I do not ask them to shelve them alphabetically. I did not categorize our whole collection, only the books that fit within these categories. At the current moment, our Princess section is down to 4 books and our dinosaur section that once took up 2 shelves, takes up 1. It has been overwhelmingly popular with patrons and one mom even said that this is helping her son be interested in reading, since he can find and pick out books that interest him.
I was authorized to paint the back of the shelves to match their color codes, and it has just brightened the whole place up! Not pictured is Board Book Bay.
Bedtime Boulevard hosts books that are about sleeping, dreaming, scaring away monsters, ect.
Award Winner Avenue hosts mostly Caldecott Winners. These books barely circulated before they were moved to their own section, now they are getting checked out regularly!
Shelf visual.
Dinosaur Drive hosts both non-fiction and picture books about dinosaurs.
Growing Up Grove consists of taking care of your teeth/going to the dentist, going to the doctor, potty training, going to preschool/kindergarten/school, bullying, being sick, going to the hospital, ect.
Pirate Pointe also hosts both non-fiction and picture books about Pirates.
Princess Place also hosts books about fairies and ballerinas.
Superhero Street. As you can see, not many books are on that shelf. They have been wildly popular with the Summer Reading theme this year.
Things That Go Terrace: cars, trucks, trains, planes, tractors, anything that goes, it's here!
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