Paul
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Post by Paul on Jul 2, 2018 19:20:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 19:24:17 GMT -5
Hehe, Heathcliff. My boy.
And Dune!
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 2, 2018 19:28:02 GMT -5
I lived for the flyers and the day the books came was like Christmas.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 2, 2018 21:34:28 GMT -5
I lived for the flyers and the day the books came was like Christmas. Seriously Scholastic book day was a damned event... I remember they always had some edutainment computer games on the last page... I got a bunch of great games from there, like Oregon Trail. |
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jul 2, 2018 21:36:29 GMT -5
I would always save my money to get stuff from Scholastic. I think my favorite was Universal Monsters you made from cardboard. I didn't do a good job making them, but they were fun.
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Post by DSR on Jul 2, 2018 22:38:09 GMT -5
FREE SUPERGIRL POSTER?!
*is jealous of 1980s school kids*
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Post by ERON on Jul 2, 2018 23:13:27 GMT -5
I would always order the Garfield collections and the joke books. 9-year-old me thought reading those corny joke books would make me the world's greatest comedian.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jul 2, 2018 23:33:32 GMT -5
We used to have a Scholastic Book Fair when I was in primary school and I loved seeing everything that they had to offer. I think I got a couple of Captain Underpants books from one.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 2, 2018 23:45:07 GMT -5
When I was young, I'd get one book from the school's book club thing (I'm pretty sure it wasn't Scholastic because I'm in Canada but it may have been). It was a collection of comics for a variety of ages, and I remember one sci-fi story that looked like it belonged in the Heavy Metal magazine.
I wish I could remember the name of the series, I'd like to see who the artist was...
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jul 2, 2018 23:52:50 GMT -5
FREE SUPERGIRL POSTER?! *is jealous of 1980s school kids* Helen Slater wore that red skirt well |
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Post by celticjobber on Jul 3, 2018 0:59:33 GMT -5
We had Troll Book Club flyers at my school.
I still have a biography of Macaulay Culkin that I bought from it, where the most interesting tidbit was that Michael Jackson apparently hated Pepsi.
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Post by Paul on Jul 3, 2018 6:29:58 GMT -5
We had Troll Book Club flyers at my school. I still have a biography of Macaulay Culkin that I bought from it, where the most interesting tidbit was that Michael Jackson apparently hated Pepsi. Hey, for what they were paying him to endorse it, I'd learn to tolerate Pepsi.  |
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Post by Paul on Jul 3, 2018 6:31:25 GMT -5
I would always order the Garfield collections and the joke books. 9-year-old me thought reading those corny joke books would make me the world's greatest comedian. Ah, yes! With titles like "101 Fabulous Fast Food Jokes". |
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Post by adamclark52 on Jul 3, 2018 6:48:32 GMT -5
My wife, brother-in-law, father-in-law, brother and myself all worked for their Canadian branch. My brother-in-law and brother still do. My wife was in the department that made those flyers.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jul 3, 2018 7:52:34 GMT -5
Used to love getting the order forms in school and buying whatever books I wanted. Hated that I wasn’t able to order any books my entire 5th grade year since my 5th grade teacher didn’t know how to send in the orders.
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Post by bibboid on Jul 3, 2018 9:34:06 GMT -5
Woo-Hoo!!! Stamp Fun!!!
My wife ran the Scholastic Book Fair at my kids’ school for five years. It was a ton of work but she always managed to sell a ton of books. Our bookshelf in the den probably still has about a hundred Scholastic books in it.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 3, 2018 13:21:52 GMT -5
I lived for Scholastic Book day, even when we couldn't afford many. It was like looking in the Sears Wish Book and JC Penney's Catalog for Christmas, it was fun just imagining having all that neat stuff in front of you. I loved when they started having book fairs too, because then you could actually flip through the books. It was like being a kid in a book store.  |
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Post by edgestar on Jul 3, 2018 13:22:20 GMT -5
Those were the best flyers, and it was always great, the day the books came in My mom ordered me the Babysitters Club set, that sent so many books, per month. |
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 3, 2018 13:29:49 GMT -5
Also, hey, I got that Stuck on Stickers book in the first flyer he posted! I remember that vividly!
It's really good to see that Scholastic still runs the program, I would have figured it had fallen to the wayside at this point.
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