2012 Themes
States submitted: AZ, AL, CT, GA, AK, MN, DE, CA, KY, LA, ME, IN, KS, MO, MN, NJ, NY, PA, OR, RI, ND, UT, VA, WI, OK, SD, FL, MD, MI, NE, OH, AR, ID
Key:
(#) – number of entries that were the same
[text; text] – entries that varied on wording
{ text ] – my notes
Adventure (2)
Agriculture
Ancient cultures
Ancient History/Ancient worlds - mythology, ancient cultures and mysteries, etc.
Astronomy
Books to Movies/Entertainment--"From the Little Book to the Big Screen" (Various titles of books/characters from books that have been made into television shows, movies such as: Polar Express; Lola and Charlie; Harry Potter; Matilda; Toot & Puddle, Shrek, etc.)
Camp or Forests (Get Lost in the Forest of Books @ Your Library) (Camp Read-A-Lot)
Careers (2)
Christmas in July, exploring international Christmas traditions
Circus/Fairs
Connections
Cowboys/Wild West/Horses/Western
Curious? Read! (subthemes might include: The Old Curiosity Shop [classics] / Madam Curie-osity [science] / Curious Cats [traditional tales] / Curious George [jungles, zoos, adventures])
Dare to dream
Dinosaurs (3)
Dragons
Earth – Environment/Earth Sciences/Ecology/Go Green/Gardens and Gardening
Economics/Environment/Recycling/Gardening/Endangered Species/Nature/ Outdoors/Nature
Escape @ your library (jailhouse/mystery theme)
Exercise/sports
Exploration
Explore the Oceans
Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, for the Teens - could expand to international/Mythology and the REAL stories behind the fairy tales/ Fractured fairy tales
Family (2)
Toys/playing
Farming/Food
Fantasy
Fit for life (mental/physical/spiritual health, valuing diversity and persons with disabilities/Fitness, dovetailing with the Olympics/Fitness/Games/Health/Nutrition/ Hop to It--Read! with Alan Baker as kid's illustrator-- Emphasis on physical fitness, use frogs, rabbits, kangaroos, grasshoppers in art Physical fitness/ Healthy Body and Mind (Brain Age, Exercising, Relaxing)
Gaming/Games
Garden /Gardening
Genealogy
Geology
Go Back in Time @ Your Library
Hats Off to Books (Different themed hat for each week, such as Chef's Hat, Jester Hat, Crown, etc.)
Help neighbors/serve community
Heroes & Heroines/superheroes theme
History
Hometown Heroes
Hometown/Backyard
Humor
Libraries Rock!
Library Laboratory
Made in America (Library Lover...and Proud of It!)
Magic (illusion)
Math! "Reading Counts"-- fun math activities, books with math, counting for pre- K, etc. Maybe Sciezka and Lane could pair up to do the artwork similar to Math Curse. It's been shown that kids are even LESS likely to retain math than reading during the summer. Numbers/Math: Count on reading, Reading adds up, that kind of thing
Medieval Fantasy - Dragons, Knights, etc
Military (Back to Basics With Books)
Mystery theme
Nighttime/Into the Night
Ninjas
Ocean (Octipy Your Mind @ Your Library!)
Olympics (will be in London in 2012)
Other Worlds like the world of the Cats (Hunter series) or the one about Snakes \ Birds or the underground world, (Atwater-Rhodes series).
Outer space/the space program (4)
Pets (4)
Pirates
Politics
Power of Books
Raiders of the Lost Books (such as Nancy Drew, Black Stallion, etc.)
Reading/ Freedom to Read
Renaissance
Reptiles/Slimy animals
Rural life
Respect, responsibility, or some other character education personality trait Paranormal/scary books
Science
Science Fiction (aliens, robots, etc.)
Sea theme: in the water-plants and fish,etc , on the water-ships, pirates, houseboats
Series-ness @ Your Library” with the focus on different series, such as Twilight and the Scott Westerfield series
Space/ Universe/Planets/Stars/Space travel/Astronomy/Planets/Robots (13)
Sports/Fitness/Extreme Sports (4)
State and local history (both NM and AZ will celebrate their centennials in 2012)
Super Heroes (5)
Summer Activities
Technology/Gaming/Invention/Science
The Forest
The future
The Rain Forest
The Wonderful World of Animals (Maybe exotic animals)
theater - play - acting - historical - "during the times of Paul Revere or George Washington or Abraham Lincoln" geography - "the prairie" or "orchards"
Time Travel (3)
Time Travel through history/time capsule theme so we can visit all kinds of historical times from Egypt & Rome to WWII to the moon landing
Toys/playing
Transportation
You’re the star at your library
Zombies/Horror
Zoo/Jungle (2)
