Mark Your Place and Your Due Date With These Free Printable Bookmarks!

If your students are checking out books, they soon will be! That means they will soon be expected to return a book for the first time in the 2025-26 school year. There was nothing I disliked more than the tedium of running overdue slips and placing them in teachers’ boxes in hopes that books would be returned.

That is why this set of free printable bookmarks includes a bookmark with the option to write down the library book due date for students.

Axolotl from Capybara and Axolotl: Best Frenemies Forever! is reminding you to return your book.

Get your free bookmarks here and happy reading!

Splash into Reading with These Free Axolotl Bookmarks!

In a few weeks, I will return for yet another year to an elementary school library where I’ll be asked for the ever-popular books about axolotls.  I’ll also be asked for bookmarks- a lot of bookmarks.  Let’s say a good portion of my school year is spent at the copy machine running off sheets of bookmarks for the kids.  As a result, I decided to create an axolotl bookmark based off a character in a book I’m developing.

The popularity of axolotls, as well as capybaras, amongst my students over the years served as the inspiration for the two main characters.  Unlike my last book, A Perfect Pet for Oliver James, this story will focus on an all too common social-emotional conflict I’ve seen throughout my career, but the details of that are for another blog post.  This post is about free downloadable bookmarks.

This little axolotl is both cute and a little grumpy.

These free printable axolotl bookmarks are available in both color and black and white. My students always request bookmarks they can color, so I like offering a black and white option for my readers with artistic talent. Download the free printable bookmarks here. Enjoy and happy reading!