Book Cover Bulletin Boards are created to feature specific books or a famous author’s books in a bulletin board. These book bulletin boards can also recreate the illustrations from a page of a featured book. Teachers can use old book jackets as pictures of the book covers for their bulletin board. These can be donated from libraries.

When you display enlarged or student created book covers, you instantly turn your wall space into a visual library that invites exploration. You can feature a specific genre, highlight a monthly theme, or showcase student favorite reads to encourage meaningful conversations about books. This type of display not only brightens your room but also helps students discover new titles they may not have picked up on their own.

You can make your book cover bulletin board interactive by inviting students to design their own covers after finishing a story. They can include key characters, setting details, and a short summary or review to persuade classmates to read the book next. Rotating the covers throughout the year keeps your display fresh and gives every student a chance to shine. A book cover bulletin board celebrates creativity, supports comprehension skills, and sends a clear message that reading is valued in your classroom.

I love to find awesome book based bulletin board ideas. As an Amazon affiliate, I may earn a commission for purchases using my links. The ideas and paid links below are based on Amazon finds that are great for making book cover bulletin boards.

Book Cover Bulletin Boards

Book Based library bulletin board: The words on this bulletin board set are ‘Are You a Library Book? Cause Im checkin You Out’.

Books Make Us Happy bulletin board: This is an emoji themed book based bulletin board with all kinds of happy emoji cutouts and paper lanters around the book covers on the wall.

Brown Bear bulletin board: Cutouts based on the Eric Carle Brown Bear book were uesd to make this bulletin board.

How Many Ways Can You Make Sunshine bulletin board: This classroom door was decorated with a bulletin board created as a tribute to the ‘How Many Ways Can You Make Sunshine’ book by Renée Watson.

Dr. Seuss Book Based bulletin boards: The first bulletin board was made for the space around a classroom door window for Dr. Seuss month. This was created using a complete bulletin board set that has Dr. Seuss book cover sheets and Dr. Seuss book cutouts. The second bulletin board was created fro this Eureka bulletin board set. It also has book cover posters and cutouts. The large Cat in the Hat cutout can be sourced here.

Books to Movies bulletin board for library: Recreate this bulletin board with marquee letters, film strips, marquee stars, book covers, this background, and a border trim.

Pinkalicious bulletin board: This 5th Grade classroom has a welcome bulletin board that says ‘5th Grade is Pinkalicious’, based on the Pinkalicios book series.

Spring into a good book bulletin board with book covers: This bulletin board is spring themed with a tree cutout, generic open book cutouts, letters, and cutouts of grass, bugs, and fowers.

Fall in Love with a Good Book bulletin board with book covers: Recreate this display with this Fall themed bulletin board and these book cover posters. The posters are not covers of real books, they are like cutouts of book fronts with quotes about reading on them.

Book cover bulletin boards are a powerful way to spark curiosity and build a reading culture in your classroom. I hope these ideas gave you inspiration to make book based bulletin boards or book cover bulletin boards for your class.

See this other blog post with more reading bulletin boards.