Remember the days when there were SO many posters produced by publishers for children’s books? I was just recalling how my wonderful boss at the Wheaton College Library, Jean Callahan, would come back from ALA with armloads. She would take little student me into her office and allow me to secret them away to line my dorm room walls. That, of course, is the trouble with creating a poster for a book–the posters often do not end up places where they will advertise the book.
But what did I just do? I created a poster for a children’s book.
It is, though, a poster that goes to the heart of the picture book, Raj the Bookstore Tiger by Kathleen Pelley (Charlesbridge). The book is about the power of the read aloud and the power of words. What better use of our marketing budget then, then to help libraries and bookstores advertise their story hours? Yes, and the poster in turns advertises the book.
The poster, featuring illustrator Paige Keiser’s lovely depiction of a bookstore story time and Jennifer Steele’s design, has a write in section to list story hour day and time. The paper is a heavy enough stock to last many the probing of curious fingers on the end of a bookcase. Useful to bookstores and libraries? Certainly. Apt to end up on a dorm room wall? Not likely.
How do you get one for your bookstore or library? Visit Kathleen Pelley here and send her your snail mail address! While supplies last and all that…
