I Miss the Scholastic Book Fair

[@sk8rmouse404]

They need to have book fairs for colleges and universities. I miss them too 😢

[@FlamingSkyess-ni6ri]

Even middle schools!

[@im_bobby_mom]

Yesss, we still want fancy pens and rubbers.

[@SECONDQUEST]

Barns and Noble or whatever is basically a book fair. They have toys and crap everywhere.

[@liallialcroc]

AND AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES

[@SlimeToTheTime]

Waterstones does exist

[@izzywasbusy]

I was so obsessed with the Rainbow Magic series that my mom made my 10th birthday cake themed around the books.

[@gracekim1998]

Aw that sounds amazing 🤩

[@izzywasbusy]

@@gracekim1998 Yeah, my mom's awesome, I love her :)

[@lavender_fields]

I still have all the books I got years ago. I do read them from time to time :)

[@wonderhois]

omg i used to read rainbow magic religiously. poor jack frost, never getting to steal those fairy item things :(

[@eglol]

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!

[@jackeroni216]

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!”

[@Ant_105]

That's most likely what they intended, surprised Dream Jelly didn't note the same thing

[@matthew_natividad]

But you should know

[@wiwi2154]

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. :)

[@_BubblGum_]

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 !

[@lauralulu4444]

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

[@BinglesP]

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

[@tinkerthetinyrobot]

the train one is the best

[@Pooky1991]

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.

[@kierascrafts]

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 😅

[@tornadodee148]

aww, thats cute!

[@minoena]

YES SAME HERE

[@ethansloan]

Same

[@Kaykay-ze9ej]

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

[@CoasterMan13Official]

I have a whole stack of em.

[@gloomyxbabee]

Local libraries really should start doing adult book fairs. They would rake in SO MUCH MONEY

[@misspinkpunkykat]

Espically since book stores have basically gone extinct.

[@Meimoons]

@@misspinkpunkykathave you guys ever heard of booktok? 😅💀

[@rebeccac.8005]

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!

[@DuskDivination]

​@@MeimoonsPlease no i would rather die than be unironically recommended colleen hoover again

[@AstarionWifey]

@@DuskDivinationwheezing 😂😂😂

[@rynbliss]

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

[@talosheeg]

I remember this with the Egyptology book lmao

[@Mskittenlover12]

The fairy one ruined my life. 🙃

[@gumbyrox1]

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.

[@beyondobscure]

I too, was crazy once.

[@zimbu_]

It's cute when children start their own cults.

[@prada223]

Ah the book fair. Come for the silly books, stay for the novelty "Invisible Ink" Pen ☺️

[@FelineSamantha]

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

[@lavender_fields]

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.

[@Lokiiru]

I'm in college and my pencil bag still has one of those UV pens that I bought in middle school LOL

[@-CloClo-]

Whenever book fairs opened up in middle school, everyone would be racing to get as many novelty erasers before they ran out of them.

[@minoena]

and the posters and scented colored pencils 😂

[@randomtinypotatocried]

@@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

[@GLITCHYIMPOSTER]

you guys had book fairs in middle school? :(

[@makemesomecoffee7821]

We don't have book fairs in middle school. That's part of why it sucks.

[@qmmaru]

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

[@abbycollins]

I read the hell out of those books and still have a couple that I pop open and read for nostalgias sake.

[@gracekim1998]

Did someone say rainbow magic?!

[@lavender_fields]

@@abbycollinsMe too! I still love the series.

[@julianhudson7811]

Gosh the jewel fairies covers were so beautiful. I also love the book covers for the weather and party fairies.

[@9cloudrachel207]

I’m an adult and I just bought a boxed set. My childhood is healed

[@hyenaedits3460]

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.

[@carlosmedina1281]

I could almost never buy books since I grew up poor

[@rifleasalt]

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.

[@marian_hayes]

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

[@kathrynjohnson8011]

Rainbow Magic series was massive in the UK and everyone, mainly girls, had the books.

[@daniellewilliamson4215]

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

[@abbycollins]

@@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.

[@gracekim1998]

Yeah it’s still going. It’s turned 20 this year 😊

[@gracekim1998]

@@abbycollins not African. Half Nigerian. Also they’re not both African mate😅 Gracie has a Nigerian mum

[@gracekim1998]

@@abbycollins the books are NOT set in America 😅 are you feeling ok?

[@oddummb]

Man I adored looking at the different fairies on the Rainbow Magic books, they all have such cute and charming designs

[@hope52677]

I remember flipping through Geronimo Stilton & Thea and friends books and looking at the fuzzy pens & shiny stickers 💖 good times ☺️

[@FTChomp9980]

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.

[@thenexttangle8568]

Gazp You know Geronimo too? :0

[@hope52677]

@@thenexttangle8568 Yes! Geronimo is what got me into reading and I also read a lot of the Thea Sister's books too

[@thenexttangle8568]

@@hope52677 The show forgot his glasses-

[@hope52677]

@@thenexttangle8568 I didn't know there was a show?! I only had the books.

[@lylukk]

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

[@maccamachine]

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

[@samthetank]

i thought i was the only one that bought all the pokedex books lmaoo. i still have all of mine too

[@alexleo-wolf4339]

Yes!

[@ShadowKaiserin]

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!

[@Riles_]

My parents would let us circle any of the books we were interested in and then it would be a surprise which ones we would get on delivery day in class, Thinking back it was smart cause it would be something to look forward to and i didnt realise till much older they did it cause we couldnt afford many books

[@jamilfrost6217]

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.

[@fizzyscales]

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...

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

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!

[@-ponysparkle3-480]

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" 😭

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

@@-ponysparkle3-480 My Secret Unicorn was great!

[@gracekim1998]

@@cosmiquealiene6168 I was like that too😅

[@jiminsmxgicshop]

Nice pfp :)

[@DankRedditMemes]

"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

[@ranibow_sprimkle_24]

i’ve read almost every single rainbow magic book and i’m sorry to report that it does not.

[@lavender_fields]

@@ranibow_sprimkle_24Would definitely be cool though :)

[@katiebittle2940]

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 😌

[@hightide8360]

YES YES YESS PH MY GOD 😭😭😭 GOING TO THE BOOKFAIR AFTER MEETING WITH MY TWACHERS THEN THE WEEKND HIT SO AHRD

[@biggator7233]

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

[@minoena]

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

[@jesuslovesyou4400]

Zillenial... that's the perfect description of my age range. Thanks😄

[@teresitaperegrina3741]

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

[@JLFB4316]

The cynicism...if it's pandering, all videos on all topics are pandering.

[@VultureSkins]

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

[@TheAstrobiologistOW]

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!

[@VultureSkins]

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.

[@Ruby.The.Shadow]

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.

[@Etsa]

Anime posters, erasers, etc

[@punchy4040]

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.

[@lulusmith780]

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!

[@W1F1N1GHTM4R3]

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...

[@Riles_]

Omg yess you just unlocked a similar memory for me, i used to sit under the tables with the massive table cloths and read books whilst my parents were volunteering

[@FleurMarigold]

I had Unbearably undiagnosed ADHD as a kid so I never remembered the dates of when these things were gonna' happen, and always forgot to ask my parents for money in advance. so most of my memories of book fairs revolve around the agony of getting to school that day and not knowing whether I'd even be able to get that £1 copy of Green Eggs and Ham 🥺🥺 it was torture

[@katiegesz8262]

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!

[@Fighting.Flower]

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.

[@minoena]

it was so hype

[@SlapStyleAnims]

It was awesome. Absolutely hype

[@jadetea6112]

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.

[@thefrogreading2798]

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

[@dot635]

I LITERALLY screamed when you mentioned Geronimo Stilton. Have't heard much yters talk about it so I was really stoked!! Love your videoss

[@Mskittenlover12]

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.🧚🏻‍♀

[@jellymcmichaels4240]

The fact that "The A-Z Mysteries" doesn't have any kind of adaptation is a crime, pun intended!

[@ScoobyDoolover99]

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!

[@PonkeyPoe]

Congrats on 100k. I'm glad to have been here from the get-go💜 Now let's jump into this fourth grade nostalgia.

[@monsterhighforeverafter7206]

Finding a rainbow magic fairy with your name was like finding gold, it became your favourite book immediately

[@yunogasai1338]

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.

[@darkninjafirefox]

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

[@confett1]

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.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

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

[@CainCalifornia]

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.

[@molotera8789]

Im also a fellow zoomer who got her gallbladder removed, the doctor told me i had the metabolism of a truck driver at 17

[@CainCalifornia]

@@molotera8789 🙏 hope you're doing better now

[@molotera8789]

@@CainCalifornia that was 6 years ago but thanks

[@yannan723]

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 🙂

[@audreyrasmussen540]

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.

[@understitchYT]

RAINBOW MAGIC!!!! I absolutely loved those books so damn hard as a kid, I cant believe Im hearing about them again

[@candybunny2462]

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 😂

[@erinella]

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 🧚🏻‍♀️

[@dreamyjellies]

Oooo I’m in the club then!! I feel so exclusive

[@RybatGrimes]

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.

[@lindaemon]

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!

[@eggo3230]

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

[@JadenRoss-v3s]

Chad teacher. Shonen Jump is peak. Everyone else gets captain underpants and ology books while you get One Piece and Dragon Ball.

[@meganmalone8783]

So one time I actually bought a book about dogs, never read the book but I got this cute little locket with a paw print on it. I still have it to this day and it has a really grainy photo of my childhood cat in it. The surprising part is that I never had an allergic reaction to it! This is important because most cheap jewelry is made of Nickel (the only thing I know for certain I’m allergic to), so I like to think I made a good purchase despite never actually touching the book.

[@L1ncore]

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!

[@bugofthevoid]

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

[@Spineless-Lobster]

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 👀

[@janisjoplin7586]

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

[@JusticesShadow]

9:26 Oh my god I ADORED that Dragonology book. ive bought this and any dragon related book that was in this series, the novel, the one with the buildable model.. they are amazing.

[@Thinginator]

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 :)

[@Tippy_PD]

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.

[@katechafey1262]

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) :)

[@nikkistewart2896]

Rainbow magic was huge at my elementary school! I loved them

[@glennyg2235]

For me it was always looking through the "video game cheat code" book despite my parents not letting me own any video games

[@faith100lps]

So glad to hear someone talk about the rainbow magic series I absolutely loved them so much

[@killagram5371]

The book fair was how I learned sales tax existed… that was not a good day for 8 year old me.

[@AstarionWifey]

9.99 and you only had $10 and the total was $12

[@The_Wampy]

If you want tactile toys made for adults, I like to play board games. Most of them come with miniatures you can paint, and they are basically adult toys.

[@montanajackson3713]

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.

[@charcymarie5804]

I’ve been watching your videos since they were only getting maybe 10k views. I’m so glad you’re getting the attention you deserve now :)

[@newtzrcool]

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.

[@millies2788]

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.

[@ProPinkist]

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

[@Disneyfreak309]

It’s crazy how they made reading 20x more fun than a Barnes and noble could

[@jardsboyfriendandhusbamd]

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

[@KG-ok3fc]

Ahhhh you hit me in the gut with that High School Musical All Access book omg I haven't seen it in so long, elementary school kid was a hardcore fan of that series lol. Thank you for the memories of that, Geronimo Stilton, and the Guiness World Records/Ripley's Believe It or Not books 😭❤

[@Vraptor140]

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.

[@catherinelastname]

The Geronimo Stilton mention made me so happy That was my favourite series as a kid

[@FTChomp9980]

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.

[@dollie_ollie]

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

[@ItsKishaK]

Giiiiiirl omg not Rainbow Magic!! I used to love those!!! 💕💕

[@marian_hayes]

I remember wanting a book from the book fair just for the toys attached to them, but my mom would’ve made sure that I actually read the book. She’s very big on reading and she was an English major.

[@phoenixblue-koszalka1518]

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)

[@Pooky1991]

I remember the Scholastcic bookfair is when i started buying Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield comics. It was also when i got into Goosebumps and owned a bunch of those books. I wish bookfaird were still a thing and for college students. Even when i didn't buy anything, i loved simply browsing.

[@BinglesP]

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.

[@ragdollrose2687]

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 😊

[@iamobsessedwithshadowsight]

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!!

[@GiganThe10YroSpaceChicken]

Never! Wings Of Fire is better!

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

I was home-educated and I don't remember if we did anything similar at home ed group (besides a second hand book sale), but I recall there being an Usborne stall at every local fete! Usborne is a British kids' publisher which produces pretty much the same type of stuff that Scholastic does, except maybe TV and film tie-ins. They did a Puzzle Adventure book line which I read RELIGIOUSLY, even if I was rubbish at most of the puzzles. I loved the titles about ghosts or exploring underwater the most! When you mentioned Rainbow Magic, I was quite surprised that you called the series "obscure". In the UK, they're probably a household name. When I was growing up, I not only read every one of them I could find (until I finally caught some sense and realised they were crap!), but I had Rainbow Magic activity books, played on the Rainbow Magic website, went to a Rainbow Magic day at the bookshop and even attended a Rainbow Magic themed birthday party, with homemade posters of Jack Frost and Oberon and Titania's castles upon the walls. I also caught some of the Rainbow Magic movie on the TV when I was 13...by which time I'd long outgrown the series!

[@featherlight2652]

The scholastic book fair combined with the nintendogs theme really vaulted me back to 2010 OH MY GOD??? RAINBOW MAGIC??? My beloved!!!

[@FlamingSkyess-ni6ri]

AGREED!!!!

[@QueenofVHS]

Have you watched the anime?

[@shadycatz85]

geronimo stilton, rainbow magic, warrior cats, saddle club, and my brother even had the dragonology book that i basically stole and kept for myself (now that i recall, the pictures of the female warrior were weirdly sexual). we didn't have scholastic bookfairs, only the catalogues. you'd take the monthly catalogue home, and if you were lucky, your parent would call the school and make an order, and friday afternoon, your parent would go into the student centre and pick the books up.

[@CrazyUFOKid]

the best childhood book series ever, extremely underrated as well, is dear dumb diary i miss those books

[@phantomology13]

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.

[@RamFett]

Awesome memories! I remember my favorite thing at the fair was this little "book" of rocks and minerals. It was barely more than a pamphlet, like 15 pages, but it came with a cheap plastic tray of colorful polished gemstones. That tray of shiny gravel became my most valued treasure! I got my mom to buy me a second one because I lost a couple of the stones carrying them around with me everywhere. Good times!

[@KingPLUR]

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😂

[@dreamyjellies]

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

[@styxthistle497]

Your videos are so good at resurrecting little buried memories of the late 2000s / early 2010s

[@MushBunny]

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!!

[@dairok9446]

I remember those days of going to the book fair during my Pokemon faze, and would spend my money on each "How to Draw Pokemon" book, I once got a Shieldon pen/earaser thingy that I eventually snipped off with a scissor to use it as a figure. It was either that or Captain Underpants, Diary of a Wimpy kid and The strange case of Oragami Yoda... good times..

[@scooda]

The virgin Potterhead: -Wizards (lame) -Genuinely evil author, with sussy red flags in the books since the beginning -Probably got into the series because of the movies -Fantasizes about living in a magical world where slavery is not just allowed, but the subjugation is necessary for the slave race’s well being (that shit’s seriously so wack, wtaf) The chad Halfblood: -Demigods and their parents, the Greek (and later Roman) pantheon (badass, educational, and relatable to aneurotypical kids) -Cool author -Can’t remember/didn’t see a single frame of the movie adaptations -Daydreams about cool mythological beings and stuff existing in plain sight, their true nature obscured by the Mist

[@SlapDrink]

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.

[@britishchick09]

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

[@cinammonpixelucy]

I GASPED when you talked about Rainbow Fairy! I colored the illustrations on the book lol. And I still own a poster from a scholastic book fair, a kitty and a puppy. Pretty sure that was the only thing I could afford hahaha

[@MinaF99]

I didn’t have Scholastic book fairs growing up BUT I did grow up in the early 2000’s so this whole video is still uncut nostalgia straight to the vein man

[@BlueSpams]

Your channel makes me feel so nostalgic. Love it ❤

[@leilanicamacho4654]

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.

[@Cherrycherrytheythem]

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

[@shrekfrog]

geronimo stilton and goosebumps were THE books at my school i have such wonderful memories of the geronimo stilton spinoffs of his sister thea and creepella von cacklefur, THE goth gf of my young queer dreams

[@FoxyTattyDrew]

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.

[@anniee5487]

i used to be so jealous when i heard about american book fairs. the closest thing we had in school was once a year the school librarian would pick like 5 books per grade and come to classes and talk about them. it was still pretty cool because we didnt have to do school work for an hour.