Building Beautiful Book Bentos via SLJ

Building Beautiful Book Bentos

Book Bentos

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SLJ: 5.4.2019 by Joyce Valenza

My friend Jennifer LaGarde recently introduced me, and our Young Adults Reading and Literacy students at Rutgers, to the idea of Book Bentos.

Highly visual, creative and interactive the book bento strategy invites book lovers to create, hyperlink and share book titles in an artfully arranged interactive collage

If you are new to Book Bento, these tips will help:

➧ Gather all the physical stuff that might help you tell your story–the book cover, relevant news or magazine clippings, artifacts/objects, images.

➧ Assemble the items artfully on an intentionally selected background in the share of a square, keeping in mind design elements like spacing, connections, color, etc.

➧ Take a photograph. (You can make the image even more beautiful by bringing it into your favorite image editing program– Canva, Picmonkey –for enhancement.)

➧ Bring your photo into an application that allows you to make it interactive. Thinglink, Buncee, Piktochart, Kapwing , Glogster, or perhaps Word, Powerpoint, Google Docs or Google Slides.

➧ Add media, text–reviews, author interviews, trailers, lessons, discussion guides, historic background, etc.–anything you find or create on the web to enhance, explain, engage or market.

➧ If you are working with a class, create a gallery of these works to share with students, parents, colleagues on Instagram, Pinterest, Pearltrees, Destiny Collections, Wakelet, Google or Microsoft applications or your LMS or LibGuides.

➧ If you’d like your work to be discoverable, tag everything with #bookbento or #digibookbento

And you will definitely want to check out the growing collections of inspiring, tasty and tempting examples for inspiration:  READ MORE >>