Display: Just Keep Reading (Ocean)

At this point, I'm content with the fact that there are no original ideas anymore. The human race has been around long enough at this point that we're just stealing one another's ideas and giving credit where we can. 

The idea for this display came out of a need for more displays in our library this month. The managers sent out an email asking us to sign up for display units since not too many had been claimed yet. Thanks to a quick Google search, I decided to make an end-of-summer, swimming-theme display. Another librarian blog (don't remember which one, sorry!) showed off the awesome Finding Dory display they put up when the movie came out a few years ago, which gave me the idea to take Dory's famous catchphrase and library-ise it. Even though the idea came from my very own brain, I'm 100% sure I'm not the first person to use this display idea. Even so, it turned out cute and I'm happy with it!

Originally I was going to put any books that looked pretty on this display, because "just keep reading" could refer to anything. In the end, I decided to raid the nonfiction section in search of books about fish, other sea creatures, water, and the ocean. Later this week, I plan to add adult, children's, and YA fiction books with the word "water" or "ocean" in the title. Here's a list of the current and planned titles for this display. I was surprised to find that so many novels by different authors are titled Thicker Than Water!

YA/Adult Nonfiction

• Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures by Peter Laufer, PhD (2018)
• The Dragon Behind Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt (2016)
• What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe (2016)
• Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea by Richard Ellis (2001)
• Firefly Pocket: Guide to Seashells of the World by A.P.H. Oliver (2004)
• Big Pacific by Rebecca Tansley (2017)
• The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Oceans Are One by Sylvia A. Earle (2009)
• Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn (2011)
• Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of Earth's Last Dinosaur by Carl Safina (2006)
• Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean by Morten Stroksnes (2017)
• Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel (2017)
• The Oceans by Ellen J. Prager with Sylvia A. Earle (2000)
• The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey (2010)
• The Attacking Ocean: The past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan (2013)

Adult Fiction, Western, Mystery, Sci Fi

• The Water Children by Anne Berry (2012)
• Good Water by John D. Nesbitt (2016)
• Black Water by Louise Doughty (2016)
• Under Water by Casey Barrett (2017)
• Water Walker by Ted Dekker (2014)
• Deep Water by Pamela Freeman (2008)
• Hot Water by Erin Brockovich (2011)
• Blue Water by Manette A. Ansay (2006)
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (2015)
• Still Thicker Than Water by Takerra Allen (2015)
• The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (2019)
• Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge (2017)
• The Iron Water by Chris Nickson (2016)
• Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (2017)
• Blood, Salt, Water by Denise Mina (2016)
• The North Water by Ian McGuire (2016)
• Thicker Than Water by Kelly Fiore (2016)
• Thicker Than Water by Sally Spencer (2015)
• Dark Water Rising by Sharon Sala (2019)
• Flat Water Tuesday by Ron Irwin (2013)
• We Are Water by Wally Lamb (2013)
• Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge (2013)
• The Water Thief by Ben Pastor (2007)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)
• Coldwater by Samuel Parker (2018)
• Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff (2004)

YA Fiction, Mystery

• Big Water by Andrea Curtis (2018)
• Like Water by Rebecca Podos (2017)
• Thicker Than Water by Brigid Kemmerer (2016)
• Water in May by Ismee Williams (2017)
• Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (2018)
• The Dark Water by Seth Fishman (2015)

Children's Fiction

• Wild Water Magic by Lynne Jonell (2014)
• A Long Walk to Water by linda Sue Park (2010)
• Water Steps by A. LaFaye (2009)
• Haunted Waters by Mary Pope Osborne (2006)
• Deep Water by Watt Key (2018)
• Treading Water by Laurie Halse Anderson (2014)