Tuesday, October 19

Children's Book Organization...


We have all been really enjoying our Learning Baskets this year! It dawned on me recently that it would be nice to have our books better organized so that I can quickly take whatever books we need for each week's new theme and decide what I want to borrow from the town library. It took less that an hour to sort the books: Our top shelf holds chapter books that we are not ready for yet, the second shelf has religious books and non-fiction books, the next shelf has books sorted by season (spring, summer, fall, Christmas, and Winter), the fourth shelf is crammed with our picture books, and the bottom shelf has the anthologies and puzzles. We have a nice sized loft on the second floor of our home and that is where our library of books is. I select books each week that fit in with what we are doing liturgically and seasonally and those books are read during the week (along with a selection of books read past weeks and any books we've borrowed from the town library). I also return books from downstairs back to our shelves upstairs. It makes things much simpler and we find that the children are not overwhelmed by a huge shelf of books anymore!

How do you organize your children's books?

4 comments:

elizabeth said...

How nice! Organization sure can make things easier!

Amanda said...

I dream about having the extra space for all books. I donate most of our books and use the library a lot just because we do not have the space.

Matushka Anna said...

Oh my. Now that I have four readers I don't do any of their book organizing any more. At least the girls have gotten that neurotic librarian gene from both Father and me (both of us started card catalogues for our books as children - we were meant for each other...) so they create their own systems. The boys' books are somewhat helter skelter. I put them in order and they take it apart. At least they read/look at the books! I'd rather that than to come back in and discover perfect shelves that they didn't touch. The adult books are arranged by category; fiction and non-fiction being the most basic divide. The fiction is arranged in alphabetical order by author. The non-fiction (mine, anyway) is organized by topic. Father has his own library of almost entirely religious and liturgical books. It doesn't really look very different from an actual library. Except there is no card catalogue!

Jamie Carin and Claudio Romano said...

We have a problem with books at our house. Maybe someone has advice. Ben is a bookworm. And no matter where I put the books he will sit and read a book, toss it, take another, read, toss..until there is a huge mess of books all over the place all day long. I want him to have book access, but I want to keep the messes to a minimum. And he can help me put them back on the shelf, but not in any organized manner (he is 2.5) and he just doesn't seem to get that he needs to put one back to take another. He is too engrossed. And now that the 14M old is also getting into books it is even worse. Ideas?

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