Scholastic Book Fairs and You?

The closest we got was gettuing books out the skip.

Sometimes a kid's author will visit and sign their books.

My son met Korky Paul.

I've not heard of book fairs at school.

That's cool. Was the author a favorite of your son? Or just a coincidental meeting?

He liked him,but he wasn't a favourite.

We were just lucky he came to his school.

We had them in PA but when we moved to NY (I was just starting 6th grade), they stopped. Whether that was the fairs not happening at all on Long Island, or 6th grade being too old for some odd reason, I have no idea.

I'm pretty sure I still have a book from a fair, called The Dog in the Tapestry Garden.

Edit: couldn't find it (I was only cursorily looking), but Amazon has it!
https://www.amazon.com/tapestry-garden-Dorothy-Pulis-Lathrop/dp/B0006AXPJM/

I'm pretty sure we didn't have them when I was at school, or that might have just been my school, I don't know.

But when my kids were at primary school they were an annual event. They brought the catalogue home and spent ages deciding what book to get.

The Parent's Club also used to give each child a book at Christmas (from Santa) and those books were bought from the book fair as well. If I remember correctly the school got a percentage of the sales money so it was also a good fundraiser.

I remember these in the 70s and my kids did they more recently. My parents would always let me get a couple of cheap books and I was always excited when the shipment arrived.

We had Scholastic Books Fairs every year (sometimes twice) in Ohio until Jr High School. We also had Christmas Gift Fairs. Had us selling Christmas wrapping, chocolate bars, etc.

We had them in Canada (Ontario) and my kids were always excited to bring the catalogue home. Not sure about now as my grandkids have not started school yet.