These books gave me all the feels!

Here is a booktok of some the books in our library that gave me all the feels!  

Some made cry, some had me on the edge of my seat, some made me just really think, and some had me in awe!  I highly recommend all of these books!

New books and favorite books!

We just got in a shipment of books and I thought I'd do a TikTok Booktok unboxing video!  

(I should have figured TikTok was blocked... so I spent longer than it should have taken, and figured out how to put a TikTok on YouTube!  So hopefully you can now enjoy my attempts at TikToks 😄)

As you can see... I still have not mastered TikTok... please share your BookToks and/orc, if you are TikTok proficient, help Mrs. Schmitz out by sending me some tips on how to make better videos 📱.  

Today in closing out the second full week of School Library Month, I wanted to share some more of your favorite books!  If you want to share a book, something about the library (any library), a booktok video, your favorite poem, etc. please fill out this form! 

"My favorite book would be Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I would recommend this book because the characters and story to be very captivating." - from an 8th grader

"Sisters by Raina Telgemeier" - from 6th grader Kamille Murdock

"I really enjoyed Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt because it gives a unique insight to what it's like to have a learning disorder like dyslexia and to feel like you are doing everything right but not getting anywhere." - from an 8th grader

Let's talk Booktok...

I had not yet joined the world of TikTok until recently.  In preparing to celebrate this year's School Library Month I came across something called Booktoks.  You can read more about them here, and see some good examples. In short, they are TikTok videos where people share books they love, books they are reading, the experience they have/had while reading a book, etc.  They can show the person or not; the person can be talking or not; they can use music or not; but ultimately all of them show the book(s) they are talking about.  

Here are a few more examples that I came across when looking up what Booktoks were.  I discovered that there are several Pinterest boards that save these Booktoks. (Make sure when you open the links to click on the video so the sound comes on.)

• Books that had me hooked from the first sentence
• YA fantasy novel tiktok would devour if they knew about it
• Books that had me sobbing at 3am

I was intrigued that this is such a popular thing on TikTok, and excited that people like to create these to share what they are reading!  I just recently made my first TikTok, which is a #booktok and I realized TikTok is not as easy as it looks 😄.  Here is my first attempt... I wanted to share all the books I liked as a kid... but I only had the one that I read as a kid (the first book in the video).  The others I read as an adult.  Again, first go at it, but wanted to share it with you.  

@schmitzie77

##booktok ##firsttiktok

♬ When You Were Young - The Killers

I'll keep trying things out and would love to see what you SHMS students have to share!  

You don't have to use TikTok to create one!  You can use a screencast software like screencastify or loom, or you can use Canva as they have TikTok templates you can use and walk you through what to do! You can also use Awesome Screenshot which is a Chrome extension and allows you to do videos and screenshots.

If you want to share your Booktok or anything else to be featured in these posts during April, fill out this form!  Thanks!