The best thing about growing up with scholastic book fairs

crunchytacos · 9 months

I wore those pages DOWN doing flip-o-rama's

ajr901 · 9 months

I used to laugh uncontrollably when they would swap around letters on the displays to create other phrases!

itsLinksy · 9 months

Captain Underpants is the 13th most banned/challenged book of the past decade. No joke. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009/index.cfm What has the world come to?

AssCommander · 9 months

"Place thumb here"

Fucking loved those.

FireflyDistractions · 9 months

I read Among the Hidden

Christopherzilla · 9 months

This was my favorite purchase at a scholastic book fair, I still read through it from time to time

Throwmetheball · 9 months

I was all about the Bailey School Kids' adventure books. Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips: childhood classic.

seahorseparty · 9 months

TRA-LA-LA!!!

skytzx · 9 months

For me, it was this. The whole klutz series was what i got hooked on.

fnbeesly · 9 months

My favorite Scholastic series

Uh huh, my age is showing.

midnightsnacks · 9 months

I loved Scholastic book orders. I would order a book and just be so excited when the scholastic box came into the class room. Aw yeah, those were the days.

tendoman · 9 months

Really, its all about the Berenstain Bears. I feel the height of the Scholastic Book Club was the mid to late 80's. My favorite part of Elementary school..

Spore124 · 9 months

In 1st grade, one of my classmates had a father who worked at Scholastic who one day brought a bag of Scholastic books to the class and let every student pick and keep one. You can bet your ass I jumped on Captain Underpants the moment I saw it.

Fmofdeath · 9 months

For those of you that didn't know, Dreamworks is planning on a movie. Could be good or bad!

xRyNo · 9 months

this.

sandaboy · 9 months

I always hated it when I forgot money on the day our class went to the book fair.

legoman_86 · 9 months

This was my personal scholastic favorite. 18 years later I still have it, but it's barely in one piece.

Maxtrt · 9 months

At least once a week I heard my 10 year old son in his room cackling madly to these books.

ronburgandy7 · 9 months

guiness book of world records.

Unfriendly_Giraffe · 9 months

I work for Scholastic Book Fairs and this book is one of the top sellers. Though, I've never read it.

360walkaway · 9 months

My favorite was "choose your own adventure".

The7can6pack · 9 months

Pretty sure the Scholastic book fairs are where I got all my Roald Dahl books. They helped me learn to read, but more than that, encouraged a lifelong love of reading. Still my favorites.

FuzzyStretch · 9 months

FLIP'O'RAMA! (please, please be correct this time memory....you don't want an angry hive mind)

ForbiddenX · 9 months

The worst part: Having a mother who you had to beg to get you Captain Underpants because she would rather have you reading an "actual book" rather than a comic book.

HonestlyImNotGay · 9 months

... we've had very similar lives...

omizzle4shizzle · 9 months

fuck you, you made me nostalgia all over my boxers. Thanks alot...

omizzle4shizzle · 9 months

NOSE PICKERS FROM OUTER SPACE http://www.gordonkorman.com/nosepick.jpg

oddfuture445 · 9 months

I remember buying the special edition one that came with a Hypo-Ring. :)

thenerdinator · 9 months

I would stare longingly at all those superhero books and Star Wars book clubs but I would only be allowed to get educational books.

And Redwall. Hell yeah.

humanaftera11 · 9 months

The second best thing about growing up with Scholastic book fairs

zekaaay · 9 months

Even though this is a re-post, I upvoted for scholastic book fair nostalgia.

jjia25 · 9 months

Makes you feel accomplished, reading a chapter book.

scottmforreals · 9 months

My mom was a librarian in a small elementary school, and she actually had complaints from parents because of this book.

Skafsgaard · 9 months

Wow guys, it's got laffs!

Spiro_Agnew · 9 months

Stupid kids born in the 90s with your stupid books.

CommodoreZool77 · 9 months

I respectfully disagree. middle left

aero252 · 9 months

I still have a few of the books:3

ajr901 · 9 months

L0-Ki · 9 months

Wow this is awesome

liquidwax · 9 months

I thought the best thing about scholastic book fairs was that I could order all the chose your own adventure books, and My parents thought I was actually trying to learn how to read...

awesomedave680 · 9 months

MAGIC TREE HOUSE bitch!

sourgiesel · 9 months

upvote all day

enhance_that · 9 months

You are not the right age.

WizenedYouth · 9 months

Shiloh and Jerry Spinelli books. Maniac Magee is still a favorite

hotasmonkeys · 9 months

There was also this one I loved.

BlackstarNoBlackstar · 9 months

I am vaguely related to Lane Smith, aka the illustrator of all the good books at the book fair.

ssjvash · 9 months

That's where I got my first copy of Ender's Game.

MAC_TRUCK_HITS_BABY · 9 months

Did anyone have a bus full of books come to their school? They weren't to sell, but it was like a mobile library with awesome books in it. I think it was from the local library rather than the schools. Fuck, that was awesome.

Ninjabackwards · 9 months

its where I got my Calvin and Hobbes books as a kid.

TravistyyXD · 9 months

Yes. Just yes.

Oh, and the Pokemon subscriptions at the back were boss!

llub3r · 9 months

I still have the entire series sitting on my bookshelf. Now I think of it, I don't think I could ever bring myself to throw them out.

Xani · 9 months

Anyone remember the Jiggy McCue stories? Fucking loved those when I was in school.

Chakosa · 9 months

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I REMEMBER THIS BOOK. We had a reading list thing at school where we had to keep track of all the chapters of each book we read and we got a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut once we met a quota, and I remember feeling so clever marking down that I had read that one chapter that I think was called "The Shortest Chapter Ever" or something like that that contained all of like 3 words ("And they did" or something I think).

Omerov1986 · 9 months

GOOSEBUMPS!

Lurkerphile · 9 months

Noooo! Goosebumps was.

time_traveller_ · 9 months

When I was in year 10, I think, I got an Ultimate Spider-Man volume at the book fair and some Year 7 said "Spider-Man? That's for kids, you're gay!"

Fucker, YOU ARE A KID, ENJOY SPIDER-MAN.

RevWaldo · 9 months

The best thing about your parent's Scholastic book fairs.

CulturedSoy · 9 months

Holy childhood, Batman!

Curbe · 9 months

genius

doubleyoshi · 9 months

What happened to this series? I was about to ask, then realized Wikipedia was a thing.

coldcrush · 9 months

i loved that book, but in retrospect, it was really creepy

nug87 · 9 months

The best thing about book orders were the free book lights that came with some books

Grouplover · 9 months

Those were the most checked out books in my elementary school library.

ItsOnlyNatural · 9 months

For me it was Need For Speed: Porsche.

What it was doing there I have no idea.

Homepie · 9 months

Pinky Waffletushie was my new name.

emmachantee · 9 months

i had to borrow my pals cpt underpants books cause my parents found it way too innappropriate. :(((((((

UnholyConqueror · 9 months

I got in trouble for reading these under my desk in class.

Did you hear that? I got in trouble for reading. In school.

ajleece · 9 months

Oh god those were beast.

ANDpandy · 9 months

Tons of laughter were made when I had to shake the book violently in the captain underpants book with the toilet

michaelbluthismylife · 9 months

Not only Captain Underpants, but all the shit they kept towards the registers like fuzzy pens, holographic bookmarks, and pencil toppers.

Fictitious_Pulp · 9 months

I just nostalgia'd so hard I got a nosebleed.

sadhandjobs · 9 months

I am hyperventilating!! I'm a middle school librarian and wrapped up my fall scholastic book fair thursday! No more Capt. Underpants, though. :(

catchthisfade · 9 months

I cannot believe other people experienced the same orgasm I did every time there was a scholastic book fair. I am such in awe now. Also drowning in nostalgia. Wow.

ihaterafael · 9 months

Tycoon games...

Leftvote · 9 months

My desktop case is covered in stickers from these.

Xok234 · 9 months

I was about to post a picture of my "TRA-LA-LA MENDOUS Captain Underpants Collection"

Einchy · 9 months

The only book I bought from Scholastic Book Fair was a book about WW2. Had to do with some kids and what they had to do to get food in the ghetto, if I remember correctly.

[edit]

Took a shit ton of random google searches, but I found it. I remember really liking this book.

LaughAtFunnyStuff · 9 months

Those book fairs are what introduced me to Calvin and Hobbes in elementary school. So good.

sadhandjobs · 9 months

I've gotten close to $1,000 in books and supplies for my library from the two Scholastic Book Fairs I've had so far--and every book from the fair that's gone into the collection has been chosen by a kid. I get such a librarianboner from the book fair!

InMySecretLife · 9 months

These things have become toy catalogues lately. Kinda sad.

There are books, but the ones the kids want all come with toys or some other gimmicky add on.

I wonder who scholastic blows to keep their stranglehold on the book order world.

TragicOne · 9 months

repost huh? sounds good to me.

littlefork · 9 months

I ALWAYS looked forward to the scholastic book catalogues, i'd circle things i wanted then ask and beg my parents. I usually got a couple books, my favorite series was Magic Tree House. Then whoever got the most books or things in class was the coolest that day. I miss those days.

adrianmonk · 9 months

I'm going with The Man Who Stole the Atlantic Ocean.

bftrollin402 · 9 months

Shit...memories

TheGreatestRedditor · 9 months

I could never afford anything at scholastic book fairs, we were poor :(

JuiceFestival · 9 months

Fuck. Yes.

Starch · 9 months

I'm sure I'm a bit older than your typical redditor, but I was more partial to Bunnicula & those awesome dinosaur pop-up books. The saddest day of my childhood was the day I forgot to bring my scholastic form into school (on the last day available) and missed out on books for that year.

[deleted] · 9 months

I may very well still have a hand drawn poster by the author depicting said captain from my 6th grade year of schoolings.

ezliconfuzzed · 9 months

to this day i still refer to any man walking around in his underwear as Captain Underpants. thanks for the nostalgia :-)

magme89 · 9 months

My brother had ALL these books, it was the only thing he would read, thankfully he has moved on to meatier things. Tra la laaaaaaaa!!!

[deleted] · 9 months

Bruno & Boots then Bugs.

bluetux · 9 months

goosebumbs and the bailey kids

mansleg · 9 months

My mum bought me Captain Underpants for my 11th birthday and because I didn't want to make her feel bad I started reading it at school. I remember my teacher asking me if I thought that was an appropriate book to be reading at a grammar school.

Yazzeh · 9 months

The only book I never regretted buying from Scholastic.

rebelliousgamer · 9 months

Is it at all sad that I made a Captain Underpants rip off when I was younger. It was called Mr Weasel and it had me and my friend Sachin as a replacement for George and Harold

cuteman · 9 months

Uh no, Goosebumps

radiowackoman · 9 months

Remember when the principal went crazy and made the kids change their names? My friends and I all picked our own names off those charts and referred to each other as such for the rest of 5th grade.

[deleted] · 9 months

Quoted this series yesterday... Upvote!

doucheplayer · 9 months

goosebumps would always get sold out before i could even reach the counter at my school.

sonaaon · 9 months

Yes! I display this masterpiece proudly on my bookshelf amongst all my other "grown up" books.

AphexTim · 9 months

Did the cover make anyone else think of "Quail Man" From dug when they saw this?

[deleted] · 9 months

i never read..i hated reading. i would go to the book fairs and by little pens and stuff haha.

Sukichi · 9 months

"It did."

lincoln131 · 9 months

That's where I got my first copy of Ender's Game.

TheBakedPotato · 9 months

Just checked. My name is now Crusty Girdlebrain.

sarmatron · 9 months

Oh, hey, more pointless nostalgia bullshit on my /r/funny. Awesome.

ducksrevenge · 9 months

I work in an office building that also houses a Scholastic Books (corporate?) office. They hold a Scholastic Book Fair every quarter for all the adults in the building. Everyone in our building goes nuts for it.

I would say one third of the items available are for children/young adults (toys, books, puzzles), another third are 'As Seen on TV' items and similar products (think a 4 foot ShamWow), and the last third are adult books (mostly romance, Chicken Soup for the soul crap, and cook books). They do also keep a pretty large (for a book fair, anyhow) amount of locally oriented books (fun and/or historical books about my state, information on ghost towns, etc).

And yes, they have a ton of Captain Underpants available.

knestleknox · 9 months

OHHH YEESSSS!!!! I fucking loved those book fairs. I remember when i was little...(obnoxious-story-you-don't-care-about-time) My mom, 2 sisters, and I went to one of those. We were running pretty late an we were the last ones to come in. Every time they had one, they let people put their names into a little raffle-box. So when My 2 siblings and I put our names in, the slips were on top of the pile. So, when it came time to hear the results...THE DUDE DIDN't EVEN SHUFFLE THEM!!! So he called off all 3 of our names. Bam: 60% off. Bam: free 50$ in books. Bam: and the best for me...grab whatever you can within 5 minutes. So I grabbed a shit ton of books that i still have today. Captain underpants, Those hotdog scary stories, The House of the Scorpion (still one of my favorite books), and probably 100s more books.

TL;DR: Got lucky as a kid and got a 5min book spree that changed my life.

[deleted] · 9 months

I never read those books, but I do remember my grade school librarian chastising kids for buying them at book fairs. She would say "Oh don't buy that. Here, take a look at these Newberry Award winners instead."

She tried that crap on me when I wanted to buy a UFO book once. I looked at the Newberry shelf, walked away after 10 seconds, and bought the UFO book. She rolled her eyes at me.

Bitch.

IronMaidenPwnz · 9 months

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOWWW!!!! Thank you for this, I used to love those books! Totally forgot about them -.-

jjness · 9 months

How I feel as a 28 year old: If she read shit like "Captain Underpants", she's too young for you bro.

Sjgolf891 · 9 months

These books are still popular! Saw my cousin who is about 10 years old this past summer and he had pretty much the entire series with him! He kept showing me them and talking about them...pretty nostalgic

JordanRodkey · 9 months

Still waiting these long 6 years for Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers. I didn't copy paste that, I remembered that.

angelkely1213 · 9 months

I hope that schools continue scholastic book fairs, but I doubt it...Students these days don't want to read, they want to play video games.

sarawrrr · 9 months

Damn I loved thease, I had the whole series.

LadySkylar · 9 months

I volunteer at an elementary school (for part of the program I'm in at my University) and I see my fourth graders reading those books all the time! It's always good to see some of the things from my childhood still surviving today.

neuromonkey · 9 months

It took me a full minute to figure out what the heck a stochastic book fair was.

JonathanUnicorn · 9 months

Used to have these. I don't remember them much, but I remember them enough to know I liked them.

(About the Captain Underpants books, not the book fairs. But I suppose the same is true for both.)

Basefree · 9 months

Jesus, I loved those books. Nice post.

codered1322 · 9 months

Bruce Coville books were the best and so we're his anthologies of collected short stories. There was an aliens one, monsters, ghosts, and some more.

CosmicBard · 9 months

Seriously, reddit, enough with this shit.

Zeppelanoid · 9 months

"Laffs"

Epicman · 9 months

Have an upvote, sir.

mickbayne · 9 months

Garfield books.

GoingCommando · 9 months

My arch nemeses!

LibertyDaughter · 9 months

I miss those book fairs. They were the best! They usually landed on parent/teacher conference day so after my mom heard how wonderful I was, we'd go buy some books.

xeonrage · 9 months

Captain Underpants? Fucking kids, get off my lawn!

funny

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