Scholastic book fair

Books set up in our school courtyard for the fair

Today we are having our last day of the Scholastic Book Fair, and have designed the schedule to coincide with Back to School Night tonight so that parents can also have more access to the fair.  I always enjoyed these as a kid, and especially love them as a librarian because I get to see tons of kids excited about books!  Our fall book fair runs three days and I set up a calendar for our 33 elementary classes to go so that everybody can enjoy this great experience.  

We originally planned to hold the book fair outside in our courtyard during the full three days, but since the rains are coming, we feared that the books might get wet.  We moved inside to our rain day location (black box theater) for the first two days, but due to a schedule conflict with another event in the black box on the last day, we moved it back outside on day three and kept our fingers crossed to wish away any potential rain.  Our wishing paid off because it was a gorgeous day! To have all the books out in our beautiful courtyard was super fun and gave everyone much more room as well to peruse books.

More and more books!...Which one(s) are you going to buy?

We decided to make the book fair even more special by creating a huge bookworm to go around the courtyard (unfortunately no photos of this came out).  Each student designed a part of the bookworm's body by drawing and/or writing about his or her favorite book.  This was a colorful way to make the event more festive and to generate excitement for books in general.  

The Scholastic people were very friendly and helped with the book displays, running the cash desk, etc.  We cannot wait for the next book fair! Now what to do with all those points? Time to go book shopping! :)