I Miss the Scholastic Book Fair
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- Full of treasures, technology, and paperback tales, the Scholastic Book Fair really was the place of dreams as a kid.
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0:00 Intro Books
1:56 Celebrity Books
5:25 Rainbow Magic Books
7:28 Percy Jackson Books
9:04 Ology Books
11:49 Guinness World Record Books
14:15 Non-Books
18:42 Outro Books
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They need to have book fairs for colleges and universities. I miss them too 😢
Even middle schools!
@@FlamingSkyess-ni6ri my middle school had them! I guess I got lucky
Yesss, we still want fancy pens and rubbers.
Barns and Noble or whatever is basically a book fair. They have toys and crap everywhere.
AND AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES
I always assumed the “100% Unofficial” thing was supposed to make you think “This book has all the facts, including stuff they don’t want you to know!”
That's most likely what they intended, surprised Dream Jelly didn't note the same thing
But you should know
When I was in school there was always at least one person in my class who got the Guinness Book of Records book and we’d push our desks into a circle during lunch and we’d talk about the records in it 😅
aww, thats cute!
YES SAME HERE
Same
You unlocked a memory in my head cause I was the kid that would always get the Guinness Book of Records every single year lol. I also would get those Ripley's Believe It or Not books. Everybody in the class would do exactly as you put it, they'd push the desks together or crowd around my desk to see all the wacky records/see the weird freaky stuff in the Ripley's books
I have a whole stack of em.
Librarian here - Geronimo Stilton is enormously popular in our system! One of our most-borrowed junior series. We still have lots of the Rainbow Magic books, though I think they're not *as* popular as they used to be. Diary-style books remain a big hit. Along with Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries, there's a newer Scholastic series called Owl Diaries that aims at the primary grades. I think the illustrations are so cute. Just thought I'd comment in case anyone was curious about the current state of kids' book series. :)
i love and adore that series !!! i wish i could check it out from my library but they only let children in the section that has Geronimo in it 💔😭 i hope someday i can get my hands on some of those books again !
when I was in elementary back in the 2010's Geronimo books were so hard to come by at the library. The Goosebumps books were also always taken out too
I remember one kid at my school back in 5th Grade or so would almost exclusively read Geronimo Stilton whenever she had free time in class. It got to the point where people were genuinely confused as to why she wasn't reading anything else. I only have to assume it was a hyperfixation for her, since I remember someone pointing out it had nothing to do with 'reading level' or anything. I wonder where she is today tbh
the train one is the best
I didn't know about Geronimo Stilton until I was on Ondemand and watched some of the cartoon. I enjoyed it alot and didn't know it was a book series. It looks like something I would have loved as a kid.
I was so obsessed with the Rainbow Magic series that my mom made my 10th birthday cake themed around the books.
Aw that sounds amazing 🤩
@@gracekim25 Yeah, my mom's awesome, I love her :)
I still have all the books I got years ago. I do read them from time to time :)
omg i used to read rainbow magic religiously. poor jack frost, never getting to steal those fairy item things :(
Awww man, so many amazing books I've read! And I mean, like, scholastic and little kids books I mean. I've read some regular books too and they're good. Lol
Probably my favourite series (not scholastic but for kids) is Tales of Sasha, beautiful illustrations and a main character I can relate to.
It's a newer series though, from later 2010s or something. But the characters are so fun and cute 💖
Never read Rainbow Magic but it sounds nice!
Local libraries really should start doing adult book fairs. They would rake in SO MUCH MONEY
Espically since book stores have basically gone extinct.
@@misspinkpunkykathave you guys ever heard of booktok? 😅💀
lots of libraries already do used/discarded book sales but it's not quite as appealing as the scholastic book fair to most people, I imagine 😅 you can still find good stuff sometimes though, and for just a few dollars!
@@MeimoonsPlease no i would rather die than be unironically recommended colleen hoover again
@@DuskDivinationwheezing 😂😂😂
Ah the book fair. Come for the silly books, stay for the novelty "Invisible Ink" Pen ☺️
I LOVED THOSE. I got this one that was pink and VERY mystical-looking with dragon claws on the end and I legitimately convinced myself that I was a witch because I had this magic pen in my possession lol
They *still* sell those pens. I still kind of buy them at the book fairs. They’re still really popular, and get sold out almost immediately.
I'm in college and my pencil bag still has one of those UV pens that I bought in middle school LOL
Whenever book fairs opened up in middle school, everyone would be racing to get as many novelty erasers before they ran out of them.
and the posters and scented colored pencils 😂
@@minoena I was obsessed with the color pencils. I got too angry with the erasers barely work as that kid who drew on everything during school
you guys had book fairs in middle school? :(
We don't have book fairs in middle school. That's part of why it sucks.
i had the dragonology book as a kid and we took the lore in it soooo seriously, man. my friends had me convinced we were all actually dragons in disguise, and i was genuinely upset when i found out that wasnt true lmao
I remember this with the Egyptology book lmao
The fairy one ruined my life. 🙃
I had a similar ologyesque book about raising baby dragons. I took it so seriously I got my dad to email the author for me, letting him know I was ready for my first dragon and where do I buy dragons eggs please. He sent a very kind email back letting me know that the book was fictional but that he also wishes he could own a dragon and if he ever finds out where to buy dragon eggs Ill be the first one he tells. Looking back it was honestly such a sweet gesture he didn’t have to go out of his way to do.
I too, was crazy once.
It's cute when children start their own cults.
the covers of the jewel fairies have been so burned into my brain from reading them over and over again in my class library as a kid that seeing them as a grown adult again was an almost religious experience
I read the hell out of those books and still have a couple that I pop open and read for nostalgias sake.
Did someone say rainbow magic?!
@@abbycollinsMe too! I still love the series.
Gosh the jewel fairies covers were so beautiful. I also love the book covers for the weather and party fairies.
I’m an adult and I just bought a boxed set. My childhood is healed
Being poor at the book fair was a special kind of hell but i still looked forward to it every year. Having to be so judicious with what little money my parents could scrounge together was almost a game but i definitely felt fomo when i saw how many books i couldn't afford and how many my peers bought.
I could almost never buy books since I grew up poor
Rainbow Magic series was massive in the UK and everyone, mainly girls, had the books.
Still is huge lmao. Or like... big enough to keep going to this day with stuff like the royal baby fairy and the slime fairy lmao
@@daniellewilliamson4215 from what I can tell they’re indeed still super popular. Thanks to a rabbit hole search I learned that they’ve added a bunch of fairies with different ethnicities (including viltigo and an entire Europe exclusive line about religious holidays around the world like Eid, Buddha Day and Diwali) disabilities (Down syndrome, wheelchair, hearing aids, prosthetics), genders (boy fairies ) and even added two new dark skinned protagonists to join Rachel and Kirsty starting from Hope the welcome fairy onwards. (one has two lesbian parents and the other has no hand on one of their arms)
As a disabled person myself who is also a part of the lgbt community, I’d kill for that representation if the books were sold in America when I was younger.
Yeah it’s still going. It’s turned 20 this year 😊
@@abbycollins not African. Half Nigerian. Also they’re not both African mate😅 Gracie has a Nigerian mum
@@abbycollins the books are NOT set in America 😅 are you feeling ok?
One of my favorite books I had read from first grade to third was Junie B. Jones. Just a simple book series of a kindergartener who’s sassy, speaks her mind, and has dyslexia I believe. I don’t know why little me was always so mesmerized by these stories, I guess they were so funny to me I laugh out loud, Junie B kinda looked like me as a kid, I didn't relate to Junie B strangely, I was in fact the complete opposite, I was a shy introvert and great speller but I still enjoyed her remarks and shenanigans. I read all the books at least once and honestly, I miss the times I’d look forward to silent reading time and pull out a Junie B Jones book.
I remember my sister also really liked Junie B Jones and my mom would read it to her before she went to bed. I remember listening in on it and thinking it was fun to listen to.
I only read the first book in the series but I kinda have negative memories of it cuz I was in special ed for Autism and I remember having an SE teacher who made me read out loud with her during reading time while everyone else read silently. I remember feeling very humiliated by her but I eventually put my foot down with her and said “no more reading out loud.” But yeah, I think Junie B Jones is a series I woulda enjoyed reading but I think it’s just sorta triggering for me cuz of my SE trauma associations with it
Man I adored looking at the different fairies on the Rainbow Magic books, they all have such cute and charming designs
core memory of every single year that all the kids in my class would buy those bendy rubbery pencils at the bookfair and then we'd all go back to class and try to write with them and they'd barely show up on the paper, and yet the next year we'd all buy them again
"The plot revolves around 2 girls that rescue each of the fairies to restore the rainbow" Makes me wonder if the illustrations slowly get colored as the story goes on with each of the rescued colors appearing
i’ve read almost every single rainbow magic book and i’m sorry to report that it does not.
@@nebula_ash819Would definitely be cool though :)
I remember flipping through Geronimo Stilton & Thea and friends books and looking at the fuzzy pens & shiny stickers 💖 good times ☺️
Your talking about that Mouse Book he is one right or a Rat Gerimo? Be either way I remember seeing those at the Book Fair as well.
Gazp
You know Geronimo too?
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@@thenexttangle8568 Yes! Geronimo is what got me into reading and I also read a lot of the Thea Sister's books too
@@hope52677
The show forgot his glasses-
@@thenexttangle8568 I didn't know there was a show?! I only had the books.
I remember ordering diary of a wimpy kid books and I even managed to convince my dad to buy the whole collection of dear dumb diary. I felt like a celebrity when it was delivered in my class. I still have it and it’s in good condition!
Oh god, does anyone remember Book Orders? They were like a miniature version of the book fair catalog. As a long time bookworm, nothing made me happier than getting to pick out new books!
My favorite series was BONE. It's completely insane to think they sold that to kids considering how dark and even gruesome it gets looking back but I loved it!
Yeah! One of my biggest BONE memories is about the furry monster things really craving quiche, which I think was the first time I’d read that word. Every time I see anything quiche-related, I picture one of the pages lol.
I used to love when the book fair started it really felt so special as a kid. I would always get a book or two or some of the pokémon pokedex type books. I would always go for the scented erasers I still have it somewhere but I do remember a kid got in trouble for stealing and the officer came and took him out of class very strange. Another great, nostalgic video I’m glad I grew up in the early 2000’s I bought so many junior novels as a kid I loved them and I still have a bunch of mine
i thought i was the only one that bought all the pokedex books lmaoo. i still have all of mine too
Yes!
So glad someone is talking about Rainbow Magic!! I used to love those books-- I remember being kindergarten-age and going to the library and just checking out stacks of them (alongside the Magic [Insert Pet] series and my faves, Ivy and Bean). Also, it took me WAY too long to realize that they were ghostwritten... poor childhood me looked at "Daisy Meadows" and thought that was such a unique name...
I thought Daisy Meadows was real too 💀
There was a silver lining though - one of the ghostwriters was Linda Chapman, an author I loved growing up! She wrote books about mermaids, unicorns, genies, film stars, "Stardust Spirits" and pretty much anything else a girly girl could want!
Yess omg! I looked back recently and had no idea so many of the books I would love reading were written by/partially written by Linda Chapman, like Unicorn School, My Secret Unicorn, Secret Kingdom or Not Quite a Mermaid. I always loved those kinds of books, all the magical and animal based ones. And yeahh I remember thinking how cool and fitting "Daisy Meadows" was, kinda like Warriors with "Erin Hunter" 😭
@@-ponysparkle3-480 My Secret Unicorn was great!
@@cosmiquealiene6168 I was like that too😅
Nice pfp :)
Scholastic book fairs were always on the week of parent teacher conferences at my school, so it was made even better with the fact that it was often a 3 day weekend for us when these were set up 😌
YES YES YESS PH MY GOD 😭😭😭 GOING TO THE BOOKFAIR AFTER MEETING WITH MY TWACHERS THEN THE WEEKND HIT SO AHRD
I absolutely love the fact I get to watch this channel grow. Yeah, yeah, the Zillenial nostalgia pandering is pretty transparent. But you have no idea how many repressed memories you've unearthed as a currently 23 year old who grew up in a small town. Still waiting on a dedicated webkinz and/or poptropica video. Maybe it's just me and my cousin, but those were HUGE parts of our childhoods. I truly enjoy the content. Keep it up. You'll hit a mil before you know it
tbh i don’t even mind the pandering. the videos are genuinely good, she has a great voice, and tbh i love the comments section here
Zillenial... that's the perfect description of my age range. Thanks😄
I’d say it’s zillenial appreciation and love 💕 i feel blessed to have found this channel, it seriously warms my soul and makes me feel like i’m 8 watching hannah montana and flipping to nickelodeon during commercials
The cynicism...if it's pandering, all videos on all topics are pandering.
It’s not pandering though. She has experience with these subjects and she’s talking about something that interests her. That’s not what pandering is lol
I intern at an elementary schools library and we just had the book fair last week. And hooo boy there were a lot of school supplies bought in addition to actual books especially those invisible ink pens, those are pretty cool.
Anime posters, erasers, etc
JESUS YOU HIT ME WITH THE RAINBOW MAGIC SERIES. I loved it as a kid and had about half of the collection when I was younger.
I miss these so much. From rushing in to try and get the newest captain underpants book. To feeling like a boss when you got the last amulet book. These fairs are one of the reason why I love to read. Even though I have terrible memories and moments from my old elementary school the book fairs are what I always feel nostalgic for. Thanks for making this video.
my mom used to help out with my elementary school's book fair while me and my sister were in elementary school... the memories of just sitting in the school library surrounded by the stuff from the book fair and reading some of the books in it at the end of the day while my mom and the other parent volunteers wrapped up with everything for the book fair for the day...
I remember one year my schools book fair wouldn't let you purchase any trinkets unless you bought a book, and that's when a lot of us learned about shoplifting 😂. Bro we all hated that school
I'll be honest, i've never been to one, or even HEARD of it until i was much older. So interesting to learn about something i never experienced and imagining what it could've been like.
it was so hype
It was awesome. Absolutely hype
Even better than the world record books were the Ripley's Believe it or Not books! Which I now realize we're super similar to the world record books
I still have at least 5 of them!! I loved the bumpy covers as a kid and I feel like it had so much more grosser images than the world record books.
I have 7 I believe. 4 yearly ones and 3 large ones. Fascinating shit if you delve deep enough that you wanna get more and more books.
Also National Geographic KIDS and their entries on strange and unusual facts intrigue me as well. It's where I learned insanity like how octopus flavoured ice cream exists and the like
The book fair was how I learned sales tax existed… that was not a good day for 8 year old me.
9.99 and you only had $10 and the total was $12
I remember guardians of ga'hoole, warriorcats, chibi vampire, W.I.T.C.H. Naruto, and Goosebumps books being available in my middle school book fair back in 2007. I still have a super old naruto bookmark from back then. In elementary school I was obsessed with the animal ark books available in the book fairs. I owned several but never finished reading a single animal ark book. I liked the cute covers.
Finding a rainbow magic fairy with your name was like finding gold, it became your favourite book immediately
I forgot about A-Z mysteries. I also loved Magic Treehouse and Rainbow Magic. I guess I've always loved fantasy and mystery books. Still do. Thanks to my fixation on the fairy aesthetic, I still think about Rainbow Magic. It lives rent free in my head. That and Disney Fairies. I swear to God. There needs to be more fairy content for adults.🧚🏻♀
The fact that "The A-Z Mysteries" doesn't have any kind of adaptation is a crime, pun intended!
I'm still mad that my parents never let me buy a Bratz Diary. They didn't fall for the 'educational' scam. I did get Geronimo Stilton though, which has influenced my love of in world puns to this day.
Around my parts it was a big deal if there was a Rainbow Magic Fairy book with your name on it, more points if the fairy you're named after was cool as well. Mine was "Erin the Firebird Fairy" which I was definitely happy with 🧚🏻♀️
Oooo I’m in the club then!! I feel so exclusive
I remember reading the world record books with my friend , her brothers had all the older ones and she had the newer ones basically completing a full collection
We got inspired so She filmed me stuffing a bunch of fruit snacks in my mouth😅 we didnt even looked up if " most friut snacks shoved in mouth" world record existed , just started to try and beat it bc we wanted to beat a world record 😂
I ended up choking on them and couldn't eat fruit snacks for years after that😂
I love this, glad you survived!! I tried a less dangerous but just as made up world record of “most layers of lip gloss applied in 30 seconds”… I don’t think I beat it, if it was a thing
My favorite scholastic book fair buy when i was a kid was an (unofficial) book of video game cheat codes. I read the whole thing even though i didnt have 99.9% of the games. It was at the quality level of a cheap dictionary, but it was still such an oddity that I really wish i still had it!
THANK YOU for talking about the “-ology” series because my school’s library had the mythology book that got me into Greek mythology lol. I believe they also had an egyptology book but I was never interested in that. Also, because it was the school library, over half on the interactive bits were torn off or stolen but I really didn’t care because I loved the pictures so much.
I might try and see if I can find them online 👀
I know it's been an actual year, but this reminded me of finding one of these books at a relatives house and being absolutely *spellbound*. I can't remember which one it was, but I remember how magical it felt, opening the little flaps, feeling all the different textures, it felt like reading something I shouldn't have been touching 🤣 I'm so glad I know the name of the series now, I'm shopping for them right now
Book fairs were the event of the year when I was in elementary school. Every single hallway in the school and the library itself would be decorated to fit the year's theme, and there would be events on top of the fair like a walk-around "family night", a reading program for prizes, and once a play which told the story the year's events were based around. My school even won Scholastic's "best fair" contest twice, both of which came with author visits. One of the authors even teased the cover of one of their upcoming books, which was neat.
You unlocked a core memory when you mentioned the Rainbow magic series. I remember getting Amber the orange fairy and Trixie the Halloween fairy. Wished I had more though 😂
It’s crazy how they made reading 20x more fun than a Barnes and noble could
I love these so much, helped me get into reading. Just looking at the stuff sold was fun for me. Remember almost not getting a shonen jump magazine I really wanted until a teacher gave me one more dollar to buy it. Felt genuinely sad when I got to high school and found out that we didn't get bookfairs after middle school. OFC by then I moved on to actual stores and sites, but I never forgot Scholastic
I absolutely love your channel. I was released from the hospital about 5 days ago from a gallbladder removal surgery and binging your videos helped me pass the time. Thank you for the pop culture zoomer content.
Im also a fellow zoomer who got her gallbladder removed, the doctor told me i had the metabolism of a truck driver at 17
@@molotera8789 🙏 hope you're doing better now
@@CainCalifornia that was 6 years ago but thanks
I was just about to check the comments to see if anyone had mentioned Rainbow Magic, and then you talked about it! Was literally obsessed with these books as a kid, had a ton of different ones. A highlight was finding one about a fairy with my name and begging my mum to buy it for me! Thanks for this ultimate throwback!
Oh my god I still have the Dragon and Wizardology books from when I was in school! I got them out and went through them again while watching the video, even found an old piece of paper where I had decoded one of the cryptic messages in the book. I was so enthralled with these books back then. So cool to still have them.
Some Junior Novelizations were REALLY good. The one for Mr. Peabody and Sherman was a masterpiece and it felt like an entirely fresh take on the movie.
Congrats on 100k. I'm glad to have been here from the get-go💜
Now let's jump into this fourth grade nostalgia.
I miss these toooooo, the nostalgia 😭 Looking back, I definitely convinced my parents to buy me way too much crap here that I did not need lmao, but it was just so magical a place... and MAN I was obsessed with the ology books, though specifically the spy one (yes, I was that spy and secret agent-obsessed kid too lmao, mystery is still one of my favorite genres) and the princess one. God I wish I could find them again right now; I would definitely read all of the text in them that I most likely also paid no attention to as a kid lol
Oh my god I haven’t thought of Amelia’s Notebook in years. So happy that someone else is showcasing it, even if it’s just for a few seconds on a screen!
The scholastic book fair combined with the nintendogs theme really vaulted me back to 2010
OH MY GOD??? RAINBOW MAGIC??? My beloved!!!
AGREED!!!!
Have you watched the anime?
I love your content, Dream Jelly. It feels like a time capsule of my experiences to share with my family members to have a lighthearted laugh about simpler days.
When you first said Guardians of Gahoole I jumped. I loved that book series and man as an adult growing up there are some things in that book that are pretty poorly portrayed (Puffins and the idea that any other bird are lesser species) but they also talk about straight up Gulags, Mutilation, War and other stuff. Basically this book taught me about Nazism and Totalitarianism years in advance before we talked about WWII in class. Crazy stuff.
The few years I remember for the book fairs, I got a Pokemon book and usually the Diary of a Wimpy kid ones. I think the first year I experienced it, I was broke so I didn't get anything, but I'm not sure if I was interested enough yet to care. Once I hit middle school, they were just like a magazine order and I lost interest entirely lol.
The Guinness Book of World Records was like the one thing that got me into the idea of the Book Fair, but one of the schools I went to, they were in the library.
A book series I highly recommend that I discovered at the book fair is the “Bad Girls Don’t Die” series. Three great books that fed the creepy, emo girl I was in middle school. 🖤 Not really scary but there’s a lot of moments that had me feeling uneasy and nervous for the protagonist.
DUDEEEE I WAS LITERALLY talking about those books with my sibling!!! I was obsessed with those and did a boom report project on it with drawings of how I imagined the characters to look and all. Honestly it would make for an interesting TV show or movie. They hold up well still imo!! I was also a quiet emo kid fs fs. Need to read them again
Man the good ol day the Scholastic Book Fair was my favorite thing I looked forward to during my Elementary School years! I remember begging my parents to give me money for books I got a ton of Marvel and Star Wars ones back then I even got a couple of erasers to.
I will never forget about how 7 year old me left one day with 20 dollars and came back with Theodore Grey's "Molecules", a 300 page detailed book about... molecules. I still have it.
Hearing Rainbow Magic spoken about by someone other than myself was an absolute blast from the past, I read literally every single one of those books that I could get my hands on as a kid. Thank you for that hit of highly specific nostalgia
I was the nerd that bought the small paper back (but still super thick) version of of the Guinness World Record book that just had the records and that's all I cared about. Just reading the cool records. lol
holy shit the rainbow magic fairies were my childhood- and I so distinctly remember the dragonology book and its lore, I think that book jumpstarted my love of worldbuilding lol
the best childhood book series ever, extremely underrated as well, is dear dumb diary
i miss those books
I don’t get how dork diaries is more popular. Dear dumb diary has much better writing tbh. Dork diaries kind of seems like it was just made for quantity. Also, it’s extremely unrealistic to the point that the later books almost feel like someone’s fanfic.
This really brings back memories, I got a lot of books from these type of events. Mostly dinosaur books, some animal ones I think and quite a few Magic Schoolbus titles too. Oh, I also remember getting some little magic trick set from the catalog once.
5:22 I used to love A to Z mysteries! I also read the Calendar Mystery series, which was written by the same author! Also Rainbow Magic is what got me deep into reading chapter books!
YOOOO PERCY JACKSONNN!!
I had a Hannah Montana episode book that I regretted buying and a Pearl the Cloud Fairy book that was my prized possession for a solid year. I was also obsessed with the Percy Jackson books to the point that I'm a grown woman who's planning on buying the newest book that just came out. I forgot how many of those books I loved reading. Geronimo Stilton was a highlight as well, though I was more of a Ripley's Believe it or Not Girly than a Guinness Girly.
Omg the nostalgia 😫 I always looked forward to the book fair and I even got to help at the book fair once! Our librarian had a sign up sheet where we could sign up for “shifts” to help at the book fair. Tho, granted, it really was just me telling other people how much an item was but that job made me feel so proud as a kid😅 Also, I still have so many of these scented highlighters they would always sell! I really only bought the stationary at the book fair. 😂
I missed doing Book Orders! Getting those newspaper catalogs in class to turn in the next day with my order to buy buy. Book fairs were fun too 🙂
I miss book fairs so much. I remember always getting the newest goosebumps, Guinness world records, captain underpants, dork diaries, rainbow magic and Junior novelizations there.
I've found the Ghostology book at a charity shop two years ago and I love it! I wasn't familiar with the "series" but I'm just a sucker for books that have little extra bits and feel like an immersive experience, even as an adult. I feel like I'm discovering some secrets along the way and something mysterious might happen irl 😊
when you mentioned the rainbow magic books i got SO excited!!! those things fill half of my memories from elementary school, the other half being wings of fire
I missed them back when I went to highschool. Aside from being an excuse to get out of normal class it was always fun to go around and just browse. We also would sometimes get to pick free books and had the option to order some stuff from catalogs. Some books i remember getting where Clifford's First School Day, Kong's Kingdom (the peter jackson king kong), King Kong by Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace and Delos W. Lovelace, Chicks And Salsa, SpongeBob Superstar, Percy Jackson And The Olympians - The Lightning Thief (movie cover), some Pirates Of The Caribbean chapter books, a couple cheat code books (no home internet at the time), Rugrats - More Jokes and I got to order The Deluxe Collectors Edition The Official Pokemon Handbook by Maria S. Barbo.
I remembered having these groovy girl-ish books that I know were sold at the book fair but I never brought even tho I owned them. I don't remember what they were about but I remember how they made me feel. They felt different to the other books, more special, airier, like they were some holy grail but they were just paper back books for girls. They remind me of kids lip gloss from the early 2000s. I think there was 3 or 4 books in the series, each with groovy 70's inspired covers, one was definitely yellow/orange. I think there was like a personalised quiz and for some reason I think they were titled similar to the chicken soup for the soul books. Maybe for pre-teens, genuinely I've been looking for them for years.
Rainbow Magic series may be lesser known in the US but it's HUGE in the UK. Walk into any WH Smith (high street book/stationery shop) and you'll almost immediately see a wall filled with about 50 of them
I loved the book fair! I distinctly remember getting a Club Penguin comic in second grade and the Ever After High yearbook in sixth grade! :D
I LITERALLY screamed when you mentioned Geronimo Stilton. Have't heard much yters talk about it so I was really stoked!! Love your videoss
RAINBOW MAGIC!!!! I absolutely loved those books so damn hard as a kid, I cant believe Im hearing about them again
this unlocked some core memories 😂 great video, we definitely had the same book taste growing up (percy jackson and rainbow magic are too good omg) :)
OHMYGOSH Guardians of Ga’Hoole!!! I fricken LOVE those books! Very underrated book series IMO. I was not expecting to hear my favorite book series mentioned but I did a little happy dance when you did :)
I LOVED the Oolgy series as a kid! Pirateology and Dragonology were my favorites, and I read them both multiple times. I never got tired of discovering - and rediscovering - the many details within their pages. (The 'letters' and other written accounts were my favorites lol)
omg i remember i had SO many of the rainbow magic books. I used to read them like crazy 😭 I brought a book w/ me everywhere and I still remember my parents getting mad with me for reading while crossing the street lol
I think the scholastic book fair is mostly a scam! At first I tolerated them when the paperback books were less than $5-$10, but when I got to high school in the early 2000s, they started to rip students off with overpriced books! I bought the Dear America books that were like $3 back then, that was a good deal! Also the Guinness book of World Records was always shrink wrapped, because they didn’t want students showrooming, because it was the most popular book that kids would huddle around in class!
The Book Fair! Such fond memories. My school always incorporated it into Catholic Schools Week (I never did figure out when regular schools had their Book Fairs), and I remember I got most of A Series of Unfortunate Events from it.
Omgg Rainbow Magic!! I read so many of them goshh, I even had a birthday party themed for it with a cake with a made-up fairy character on it! I remember waiting for the possibility a book would come out with my name for one of the characters. (it did eventually happen :D)
As a kid, I _hated_ Geronimo Stilton and Rainbow Magic because they were the number one enemy to what I was trying to get everyone to read - Warrior Cats.
At some point I persuaded almost the entire class to read Warriors, but the most stubborn people were always fixated on Geronimo Stilton or Rainbow Magic and I hated those series for that. I needed more Warriors cult to rise!!
I read very few of the actual rainbow magic series books, but there was a book that contained info on every fairy in the entire series. My friends and I loved it, and we would spend a ton of time at recess finding our favorites and picking which fairy we felt potrayed us best. I loved the gemstone ones the most, iirc.
man this brought me back. My mom used to give me money to buy books (only). It was during the time in my life where I was a HUGE Hillary Duff fan and I saw a Lizzy McGuire poster. I bought it and omgosh my mom was so mad at me. But we couldn't return it so I had it hanging up in my room for a good 10 years. I don't remember what else I bought, but I do know that the Rainbow Fairy series is what got me into reading. My mom started working as a librarian's assistant when I was 9 or 10 and would bring books home for me to read. None of them were interesting to me until I read Ruby The Red Fairy. Then I became OBSESSED with reading. It was so bad that my teacher actually had to forbid me from having not textbook books at my desk (because I would secretly try to read during class). those were good times. Now I barely read and just watch Jdramas and Kdramas all day. lol.
I loved the scholastic book fairs so freaking much. I remember my teachers having to force my class to leave because we had already stayed longer then expected. I would always have around 2 or 3 books and anything I couldn’t purchase that day, I would come back on the last day of the fair and buy the final book I wanted. The scholastic book fair needs to be brought back to schools, they brought the joy of reading to kids who I knew DID NOT like to read at all. The fair was such a huge part of my childhood and I always looked forward to it. My favorite books I loved as a child were Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries, and the Rainbow fairies.
I used to love the fuzzy pens bc the ~*popular*~ ppl in my class used them lmao
Also omg yes I loved rainbow magic, Geronimo Stilton and so many other book series!
The book fair was my favorite thing from elementary school 😢 I loved getting books and animal posters for my bedroom. 😭
This also reminds me of the 100 Book Challenge that my school did. You had to log the hours you read at home, have your parent or guardian sign off on it, and depending on how many hours you logged, you could get cool little prizes. Like the pencils that smelled like oranges, those pencils that you could change out the little lead things (not mechanical pencils), and other fun junk like that. and they'd give you these cheap plastic medals that always broke instantly. We also had a free book day that was like the Scholastic book fair, but obviously more limited. My favorite book in 3rd grade was How the States Got Their Shapes. And I remember getting Amelia Bodelia because my grandma loved reading that with me.
My favorite Scholastic memory has to be the Origami Yoda series. I originally got the first book just because the cover interested me; I was slightly bummed when I opened it up to find that it was not "How to make paper star wars characters" like my illiterate ADHD brain initially thought. However, when I did learn how to read competently, I ended up hooked. I wasn't even a Star Wars fan, but I adored it, and the series carried me throughout my elementary school years. A big highlight of growing up was seeing a new entry on the shelves each year.
same! i loved that series!
Wow, this takes me back to when I'd go searching for ghost, dragon, and mythical creature books every time the book fair came around-- I'm pretty sure I still have a few of them gathering dust, somewhere.
I miss the Scholastic Book Fair too!! I wasn’t much of a reader in school so I never really bought any books. Instead of looking at the books, I was more intrigued by all of the extra things like the erasers and other things they had there. I remember buying the cow and pig puzzle erasers! I love those!
For me it was always looking through the "video game cheat code" book despite my parents not letting me own any video games
My sister's school had a scholastic book fair a few months ago. I miss begging my mom to get me like 20 books. Me and my friends would also flex our books. Memories...
I remember watching Battle for Dream Island back when I was in the age demo for these book fairs at school, a long time ago when the show only had 1 or 2 seasons and not nearly as many people watched it. Apparently the character guide book for that series is now being sold at Scholastic book fairs now.
I'm just saying... if they had that guide book in fairs when I was at that age, I would've gone apesh/i/t-level excited.
there was this mythology series that i used be OBSESSED with as a kid called 'myth-o-mania'. i read a bit of percy jackson series, but myth-o-mania was my all time favorite mythology series
I remember buying 5 chocolate calculators thinking they were real chocolate, I thought the thing that said “solar powered” said “sugar powered” as a pun, and it only said “do not eat” in some tiny text on the back. I felt scammed but looking back on it, I was just stupid
holy crap youve grown since i last watched you, you probably wont see this but ive been subscribed since you had like 15k and despite not beinf there for much of the stuff you talk about you have nice content
Man everytime that image of the psp shaped digital organizer shows up I get hit with a huge wave of nostalgia. I remember also tricking my parents into buying that for me and I loved the hell out of it. Took it with me everywhere....for no real reason other than "kid brain". Also I feel called out by the Percy Jackson comment as yes....yes that was the start of the "Greek phase".