Just a few days before his next birthday and he chose to swap out Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with everyone’s friends from Sesame Street. To get to this street, you’ll need to find Bizzell Memorial Library and head to the third floor across from the PS call numbers. He chose this topic earlier in the year before it was announced that Sesame Street was losing funding, so it now has an added importance.

This one is a mix of the Children’s Television Workshop books and the anniversary compendiums that I have as well as the biography of the show Street Gang and a fun little book by Carroll Spinney: The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers.

First thing is to take town the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang material

Then work on the layout and organization. This one was neat because it was the first time we worked with some duplicate books where he could have the closed book showing the cover and have another copy open to a page he thought everyone would recognize.

A few minor tweaks and some risers:

The case tops go on (or close). I should probably say more about Funko Pops which I have a love/hate relationship. I hate that they are so stylized but man the properties they’ve negotiated for production has been impressive. They are also a great price point (for non specials and variants) for gifting, and they display really well. They add just enough of a pop (pardon the pun) and whimsy to what could be just boring books displayed in the library. Having the Funko of Jim Henson or Dr. Seuss out with their biographies or some of their works just really pulls it together in a way that I wish didn’t work.

And the few extra images. I always save my cuttings for things like this so it isn’t waste and it isn’t overuse.

One of the things I like about this is how they put the Sesame Street magician (The Amazing Mumford) in charge of the two science books. This is something I have noted to add when I make a post about science in children’s books.

Also, this, The Perils of Penelope (not Pitstop) is one of the funniest books ever written. I promise it will make you laugh, and if it doesn’t there is every likelihood you are dead, or at the very least not getting your reading recommendations from a random website posting pictures of exhibits their child curates.