What can book lovers find on Pinterest? The better question is what can’t book lovers find on Pinterest? From children’s book maps to bookmobiles to book spine poetry, you can find it on Pinterest! Here are 15 exceptionally entertaining Pinterest boards for you to explore.
Edible Books
Notable Pins: Where the Wild Things Are cupcakes, 3 phenomenal Alice in Wonderland tiered cakes, Olivia cookies and a lovely Olivia cake, and Mo Willem’s pigeon cake pops!
Book Art
2. Book Art — Missoula Public Library
Notable Pins: A bathtub made of books, a book maze, sculptures created by carving books, and a stunning book dress.
Maps From Children’s Books
Notable Pins: Maps of the 100 Acre Woods, the Land of Oz, Hogwarts and more.
Book Spine Poetry
4. 2012 Book Spine Poetry – 100 Scope Notes
Notable Pins: Book spine poetry!…Need I say more?
Bookish Fashion
5. Worn Any Good Books Lately? – Wendi Kaufman
Notable Pins: Where the Wild Things Are Vans…and Keds, slippers, pajamas and a t-shirt, a Dr. Seuss charm bracelet, a Harold and the Purple Crayon t-shirt and literary tights.
Bookmobiles
6. Bookmobiles – American Libraries Magazine
Notable Pins: 253 bookmobiles from around the world, including this picture of the Los Angeles Public Library’s mobile library for the sick from 1928. Viva la bookmobile!
Children’s Book Illustrations
Notable Pins: 1,000+ children’s book illustrations, with a focus on vintage children’s literature. This illustration is from Tales of the Ballet by Alice and Martin Provensen.
Kidlit Destinations
8. Kidlit Destinations – CBC Book
Notable Pins: Moomin’s World (i.e. Muumimaailma) in Naantali, Finland; the Dr. Seuss National Memorial in Springfield, Massachusetts (US); Harry Potter Wizarding World in Osaka, Japan; and the duckling statues from Make Way for Ducklings in Boston, Massachusetts (US).
Bookmarks
9. Bookmarks – Happy Batatinha
Notable Pins: Links to a variety of free printable bookmarks and bookmark-making tutorials…including instructions for making this lovely origami heart bookmark.
Edible Books
10. Edible Books – Playing by the Book
Notable Pins: A typewriter turned waffle iron, a 7-tiered superhero cake, an edible Green Eggs and Ham book made of green eggs and ham, and numerous cakes and snacks inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Bookmobiles
11. Mobile Libraries Around the World – The Book Bus
Notable Pins: A camel library in Kenya, a tank turned library in Argentina, a book barge in the UK, an elephant library in Thailand and other unexpected mobile libraries bringing books to people all around the world.
Reading Nooks
12. Reading Nooks – Delightful Children’s Books
Notable Pins: Closets turned reading nooks, DIY shelving and tents, beautiful built-ins and lots of inspiration for creating your own reading nook.
Book Art
13. Book Art – Omaha Public Library
Notable Pins: “Hibernation” by Raquel Marin, book stilletos, a gorgeous carved wooden book, and “It’s raining books!” installation art.
Bookish Quotes
14. Bookish Quotes and Such – Tattered Cover Bookstore
Notable Pins:
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” -Emilie Buchwald
“What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” -Oscar Wilde
“You’ve got a right to read. Don’t blow it.” -National Book Committee Inc.
“We read to know that we are not alone.” -C.S. Lewis
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray; Go throw your tv set away; And in its place you can install; A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” -Roald Dahl
Children’s Book Illustrations
15. Petra Brown
Notable Pins: 224 Pinterest boards (thus far) each dedicated to a different children’s illustrator: Alice and Martin Provensen, Aliki Brandenberg, Arnold Lobel, Art Seiden…
What I would really like is one of those waffle makers that make books
It would be so cool!
I could eat all the pages that I’ve read , until I finish reading the book!
Lalala
I love reading books !
A delight to the eyes, heart and mind
Thank you so much!
Thank Karleen for the great information on Pinterest. After much recsareh today it seems on the more effective ways to market yourself on Pinterest is to host contests. Better Homes and Gardens has a great example of a contest they are running and I plan to use it as a model to launch my own in a few days. I will let you know how it goes!Professor Scott
This is a goldmine!! Thank you!
Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.
What a great idea for a post. I’m having so much funny looking through all of them. Thanks for the great ideas.
Thanks so very much! I followed them all.
Thanks for the Pinterest board links. Following them all. I submitted a few of my own that I hope you will consider for your directory. Thanks!
I will definitely include these in the directory. I’m glad you submitted them.
Have you every come across literature based nature study ideas? That would interest me greatly since I love books and I teach a nature study class.
I recommend books to accompany nature activities on this Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/delightchildbks/a-book-a-project/. I’ll be on the lookout for others as I create the Pinterest directory. If any readers have Pinterest boards to recommend, submit them under the topic “storytime ideas.”
Oh my word! What a brilliant post! I think I am about to lose a LOT of time here…
Thanks, Zoe! I lost a bit of time engaged in “research” for this post.