ONE WEEK BEFORE
your Book Fair

A Guide to Setting Up Your Book Fair

• Map out your Book Fair location by deciding where cases will go

• Check out this page that shows how Fair setup is easy to accomplish with just a few simple steps.

• Decide on operating hours

• Find out how to set up your Scholastic EasyScan® register in this instruction guide.

Arrange previews
for teachers

• Choose a date and ask a school administrator to invite teachers

• Check your Book Fair Kit for shelf-talkers, which can be filled in with teacher recommendations

• Set up Classroom Wish Lists for each teacher

• Show teachers how to set up eWallet for their classroom libraries

• Use book blurbs to call out amazing books — especially Fair exclusives that you can’t find anywhere else — in online promotions, posters, and even public address announcements.

Prepare safety measures

• Check your Book Fair Kit for safety posters

• Look for other printable safety materials in Fair Files

Make the most of your Book Fair Kit

When your Book Fair Kit arrives (about one week before your Fair):

• Hang hallway posters

• Distribute booklist flyers to raise awareness of what's new at your upcoming Book Fair

• Digital booklists are available online. For Fairs from November 1, 2021- January 13, 2022. Stay tuned for our spring booklists! Be sure to choose the correct version for your Fair type:

  • Elementary Case

  • Elementary Tabletop

  • Preschool Case

  • Preschool Tabletop

  • Middle School Case

  • Middle School Tabletop

  • Grades 6 & Up Case (goes to grades 6 & up at K-8 schools)

  • Grades 6 & Up Tabletop (goes to grades 6 & up at K-8 schools)

Raise funds via All for Books™

In an All for Books fundraiser, collect loose change to purchase books for your library, students who need assistance, classroom libraries, or a charity of your choice. Some fundraising ideas include:

• Baggie coin drive

• This vs. That vote

• Take-a-Ticket display

• Round up at a cash register

Share on social media

• Write a post promoting your Fair or use the social media assets provided here

• Offer to write an announcement and provide assets for an administrator to post on the school and/or district social media

• Ask teachers to post on their classroom portals