Shelf Talkin'

I had a fun opportunity to create something at work this week -- we had a "craft time" moment in our staff development day, inspired by the work of local author Marthe Jocelyn. Marthe recently published a book called Sneaky Art, featuring random acts of public art that kids can make, things that will surprise people and hopefully bring a smile to their day. Some of the photos in the book even featured our library!

So we took inspiration from one of her ideas, and created our own shelf-talker "conversation bubbles" to stick into books on the shelves, suggesting content, or perhaps a reading situation which a book might suit. After pondering for a while, I came up with this theme:

This is a view of my staycation bubble as you're walking down the aisle. Below I've turned it around to catch the sun, and so I can show you which book I chose. While Astrid & Veronika is not light summer reading, it does take you away into a Swedish summer, with a very memorable scene in which the two main characters decide to go swimming at the lake...so if you can't get away, read yourself away.