Interesting and reasonable ways of displaying books for Early Years

[KatyMac]

Anyone got any good ideas?

I am short of wall space and money - OFSTED think we need to think more imaginatively & I'm all out of imagination, please inspire me?

How about this?

Ah - see this was posted earlier on a different website. Just liked the idea and wanted to share. I actually bought 3 and attached them together (so it formed a rack) and have my books stacked in them under a side table for DS as we have very little room in our house.

Books can go in the different areas too. For instance in the construction area you could have a copy of The 3 Little Pigs and in your home corner Goldilocks etc.
I like to use wicker shopping baskets and pop a couple of books and some figures etc in and dot them around the room. Harry's dinosaurs is good to put in a bucket with some toy dinosaurs in too
If you are worried about the babies eating/ripping the books then photocopy the pages, laminate them and tie them together with ribbon.

I ike the photocopying idea; but it might take a while

OOOh this is nothing to do with book books, but we are doing display books (photos of what the children do at nursery) and the parents and children have free access to and also family photo books, which is photo's of the childrens family, laminated and attached into books with ribbon.

Oh yes - we used to do display books, then we got a digital photo frame; which then broke & we stopped doing anything - that is awful isn't it?

Gosh

That sounds like childcare

There are not enough hours in the day & I already do a 10.5 hour day

God i know that feeling!!

& I don't even get minimum wage (disclaimer as a SE person I don't have to be paid minimum wage, but it would be nice)

Knocks head against wall/floor/nearest surface

On the up side I have:

Displayed words & numbers
Displayed Letters
Displayed Letters & words
Displayed weather symbols
Changed displays of toys, move musical instruments & puppets into continual access
Created new library notices words & photos
Sorted out and collected together books (which goes against my better judgement but I still have my basket of books to move around)
CHanged my baby area & then changed it back as it was good to start with

not bad for 24 hours (or so)

Not bad at all, i love a good change around, (slightly different for me as i work in private day nursery, from your pictures it looks like childminder/group of childminders?) i moved into babies last Sept and i've changed the room 3 times already

Yes we are both childminders working together and Childcare on domestic premises (depending upon numbers); I need a bigger setting

Do you have access to outside space thats one way you could get more space to use well weather permitting?

Yes lots but the books get so wet

We have a surrounded deck, which we can man as if it was inside

A willow house, veg beds, fruit trees, a fenced shady area & digging pit