Integrated Readers Advisory
Horror is one genre that has many books-to-movies, which libraries can use towards their advantage. A creative display using the books and their reciprocal movie on a display is one way to catch movie watcher's and reader's attention. The display should also be decorated to go along with a theme such as the scare your pants off. The letters used in the display could be dripping with blood as well.
Examples to display: Stephen King's
The Shinning, Scott Smith's
The Ruins, Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs. The For titles that do not have movies made, you can say "if you liked this, you may like this" for example for people who enjoyed the Walking Dead TV series offer books such as
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks or Y: the Last Man by Brian Vaughan. The Walking Dead alone could be it's own display with zombie books, since the TV show is so popular right now. The display could even rotate out with different types of horror books such as vampire books, monster books, serial killer books and so much more. This create display can be used for any genre that has films-to-movies.
Examples to display: Stephen King's The Shinning, Scott Smith's The Ruins, Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs. The For titles that do not have movies made, you can say "if you liked this, you may like this" for example for people who enjoyed the Walking Dead TV series offer books such as The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks or Y: the Last Man by Brian Vaughan. The Walking Dead alone could be it's own display with zombie books, since the TV show is so popular right now. The display could even rotate out with different types of horror books such as vampire books, monster books, serial killer books and so much more. This create display can be used for any genre that has films-to-movies.
A book to movie display really works well when the library's book club reads the book and the library shows the movie. It gets people talking about whether the printed word is as scary as the moving image. The best thing about a book to movie display is actually counter-intuitive: having seen the movie to reading the book.
ReplyDeleteTake The Shining for example. A very popular movie that has been out for 35 years. But Kubrick's Shining is telling the story from a different angle than King's source material. Highlighting that fans of the movie will be shocked to the end of King's story may inspire them to read the book, and hopefully engage in to who's vision is best (I will always say Kubrick's version is best, despite my adoration for King's work).