S/O from CE&P: book orders from the 80s

[aurora]

There's a thread on CE&P called "50 Things Only '80s Kids Can Understand, and I'm guessing many of us here on the Book Club board fondly remember those Scholastic book order forms.  I used to love getting them!

I mean, Amazon is great and all, but it doesn't bring the excitement of reading into the classroom in quite the same way.


worldobserveronline.com/2013/05/22/50-things-only-80s-kids-can-understand/

[secretlyevil]

I think I was only ever allowed to order books from the order form once or twice.

[msmerymac]

I loved those. I wanted ALL THE BOOKS. My mom would have to tell me to slow my roll. I'm sure it was nice that I wanted to read but at the same time, money doesn't grow on trees.

[joenali]

I still do book orders the old fashioned way in my classroom, my kids love getting the book order catalog!!

[charlatti]

May 24, 2013 15:51:23 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I loved those. I wanted ALL THE BOOKS. My mom would have to tell me to slow my roll. I'm sure it was nice that I wanted to read but at the same time, money doesn't grow on trees.

Same here. I remember devouring the catalog and circling pretty much every book.

[duckduck]

I lived for those! I forget what my limit was per catalog, but I know I always ordered as many as Mom would let me.

[whitepicketfence]

May 24, 2013 17:39:48 GMT -5 charlatti said:

May 24, 2013 15:51:23 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I loved those. I wanted ALL THE BOOKS. My mom would have to tell me to slow my roll. I'm sure it was nice that I wanted to read but at the same time, money doesn't grow on trees.

Same here. I remember devouring the catalog and circling pretty much every book.

Ha! I used to do that, too.


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[Pippin]

I loved those catalogs. Most of my favorite series from elementary school came from those. Although one of the schools I attended had a huge library that beat out the catalog. wah wah.

[Deleted]

That is how I got all of my Baby Sitter Club books.

[Nonny]

I'm pretty sure I was limited to 2-3 books per book form and 3-4 per book fair.

Not related to the book order forms, but in the summers on vacation I'd get some amount of spending money that I was supposed to use on things I wanted to buy, but when we'd go to the used bookstore my dad would always buy books for me so I didn't have to spend my own money.

[BlackCanary]

May 24, 2013 17:39:48 GMT -5 charlatti said:

May 24, 2013 15:51:23 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I loved those. I wanted ALL THE BOOKS. My mom would have to tell me to slow my roll. I'm sure it was nice that I wanted to read but at the same time, money doesn't grow on trees.

Same here. I remember devouring the catalog and circling pretty much every book.

Me too.

I loved when we had the book fair at school. 

[booknerd]

I always loved the book order forms and book fairs! They were easily some of my favorite parts of the school year. I was rarely allowed to get anything though because my mom preferred for us to use the library.