Spring Bookfair

Last week was the final book fair of the year for our elementary school. The kids really love going to the book fair because I let them choose a few books for our hoard every growing library and because there is always some sort of fun entertainment. This year the school hired Peter Wood: Collector of the Impossible to perform. They have had other magicians but this was the first time this particular magician was at the school.

Unfortunately Harper wasn't able to attend the fair this time around because it interfered with boy scouts. He was pretty bummed and was willing to miss scouts for the fair but Tony insisted he go to scouts because they were working on something that they needed in order to be promoted to the next level. He begrudgingly went but when I saw him afterwards he told me he'd had fun at scouts, so no big deal.

Our school allows the kids to preview the books at the fair a few days prior to family night and they're each given a flyer in which they can write down some of the books they'd enjoy getting. I used Harper's flyer to choose two books for him and since Dakota was with me she and I chose hers together.

This is what we ended up with:

Harper got Factastic: A Lego Adventure in the Real World (a book full of seemingly random facts) and Itsy Bitsy Cuties (a book about some of the smallest animals on Earth). 

Dakota got I Don't Want to be a Frog (a book about a frog who wants to be a different animal) and Owl Diaries: Eva Sees a Ghost (an early reader book about an owl who thinks she sees a ghost). 

The other two books There Was An Old Pirate Who Swallowed a Map! and The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Monster Power were books that their teachers had requested for their classrooms. Since it was teacher appreciation week I thought it seemed appropriate to get them something they wanted.

The two pens, the pink and orange things in the photo above were Dakota's picks. She wanted a diary but she already has 2 so I talked her down to pens that she can write in her diaries with instead. They're fun pens because the eyes pop out when you squeeze the sides. :)

Harper has read Itsy Bitsy Cuties about 10 times already but the Lego book has pretty much sat untouched. I'm hoping he'll pick it up soon. Dakota has looked at and read I Don't Want to be a Frog several times and we started reading the Owl Diaries just last night. She seems to like it so far and we're taking turns reading parts of it; she's really come along with reading and is getting better by leaps and bounds it seems. She and I are also reading The Fantastic Mr. Fox on the nights that I read to her and honestly, she doesn't love it. It's a really dark story about three farmers who are trying to kill Mr. Fox and his family because the fox keeps stealing the farmers' poultry to feed his family. Harper and I are about 40 pages away from finishing the third book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. If we hadn't picked up books from the library this weekend we'd be done but he couldn't wait for Tony to start reading him The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine (a minecraft novel). I'm going to have to force him to let me finish...I need to be done!