80’s School Book Fair was Amazing!!
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I remember the sizzle in the air of shared excitement. The regular boring library was transformed into a magical place.
There is no parallel for this in adult life.
The scholastic book fair was my dealer and my drugs of choice were choose your own Adventure and Garfield books.
my book fair days were the 70's...but i lived in a very small town and getting fancy new city books was awesome...my favorite was weekly reader...it kept me up on the current events
I was the 80's movie storybook king in elementary! 😂 You name it, I had it.
From what I remember, was like the first scene in your video. An area set up with books for the book fair and the kids could go in and shop around. I remember ordering a book and it did take along time for them to get delivered back to school, but when the teacher opened up the box and started dishing them out, that was fun, except for the poorer kids. I also remember the Book Mobile, where little kids would cram into the back of some strangers van in the 70's and entice us with Free books, I always remember the book mobile books were free. Also, $20 in the 70's, c'mon man. thats grocery money.
you could get all them stephanie books....
I got Splinter of the Minds Eye from the Scholastic magazine or leaflet or whatever it was.
Ordering books from those was awesome, and a nice part of the gen-x childhood experience. I remember almost every boy ordered Star Wars and Garfield books as well as books that has lots of pictures from movies we all liked.
I never bought books from the Book Fair, I bought pencil top erasers shaped like different characters and bought a couple nice car posters and this was back during the late 90’s-early 2000’s. I also ended up getting this Ripley’s Believe It or Not thing, I think it was a magic kit or something like it, it was one of the coolest things I ever bought from there.
They always seemed to have some titles you really couldn’t find in a bookstore.
I hope you guys stay safe from the tropical storm, Junkman.
I had forgotten all about the Schoolastic book club. Now I remember giving my money with my order form to the teacher. I think I got an E.T. story book.
I found the Supergirl movie storybook at the thrift store.
Books are awesome 😎 especially STAR WARS COMIC BOOKS aggghhhhhhhh
I’m pretty such those Dynamite magazines came from the book fair!
My Dad asked me to get him a Custom Van book 🙏👍✌️
I don't think we had book fairs 🤔 our library was boring as far as I can remember 🤔we didn't have any cool books😂 there was some kind educational book with a topless woman in the bath😍😂😂 that was about all😂😂
Mad Libs + back of the bus = filthy laughs
I remember first grade 1984, 85 year getting ewoks book and a calculator watch
Ed Emberley drawing books were the shit!!
I loved bookfair and would always get excited, but I was always disappointed that they didn't have anything I wanted.
I ended up settling on something just for the pictures or left the bookfair empty handed.
I think if I were alive in the 70s and 80s I would've had a much better time.
Thanks for the video
To me it seemed from the 4th grade onward both types of book sales ended. However from 1991-ish to early 1994-ish were book fair times, and they were awesome. At my school we had both: The flimsy order form you cut from the back page, and the store-themed Book Fair. It seemed to me both were Scholastic ideas to sell books. For us it never took too long to get the books we ordered. Those books looked, smelled, and felt new. I was a fan of that yellow school bus with the crazy bus driver and Arthur books. Good times!
Now you have me wondering. I know that there was Scholastic, but I forgot about Troll. I did go to a parochial school for a year in 5th grade but was back to public school for 6th grade, so maybe the 2 school systems had a different company or as you wondered if the book fair was a different company. But yes, book fair was an awesome day. I thought it was cool that these huge folding bookcases rolled in filled with so many wonderful options! Also, we got to get out of class for a bit when our time came to go to the book fair. I've been following along your Scholastic Star Wars book series and I have book from all 3 movies still. I also have Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek, the Motion Picture, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for bringing back these memories Junkman! 😃👍
You're correct about there being both an order form and a book fair. I don't know if they were affiliated but I know that, at least in my school, the order form books were delivered to the classroom. I ordered a Gremlins book that never arrived.
Book fairs for me were all about Bigfoot and UFO books, ALF books, My Pet Monster books and, sorry because I know you aren't a fan, Garfield books.
I had both types of book fairs. They were great.
I would go absolutely nuts if my workplace had anything as divine as Scholastic Book Fair Day. I still have so many books that I acquired at those *spectacular* happenings. By the time I was in sixth grade, I had attended five different elementary schools, and all of them had some variation of this event. The most notable was the book fair in Michigan, where you only needed money to buy stickers or posters or erasers - one book per kid was FREE. I never saw that anywhere else. That's where I got Ramona the Pest. I still have it and intend to read it to my grandson sometime next year or so.