Drop Everything and Read!
The Annual HCES Book Fair will take place December 3 through 6, 2019.
Parents, please join us for the Author Breakfast and Book Fair Kick-off at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 in the library (following the PTA meeting in the cafeteria). Come share a light breakfast with fellow parents and hear author Gabrielle Balkan discuss the research and creative process behind Book of Bones, Book of Flight, and The 50 States. Our second through fourth graders will meet with Balkan later in the day. The author visit guarantees good conversation around the dinner table that night.
Visiting the Fair
Students visit the Fair with their classes.
Student schedule:
| Tuesday, 12/03 | Wed.,12/04 | Thursday, 12/05 | Friday, 12/06 | |
| 8:00 – 8:45 | AuthorBreakfast,Parent Preview | OPEN SHOP | OPEN SHOP | OPEN SHOP |
| 8:45 – 9:15 | Sale, | ROHAN-JONES-4 | GLASSER-3 | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Signing | MCCABE-4 | ODOM-5 | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | and coffee | LOBELLE – 2 | LAU-1 | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Author presents to 2nd-4th graders 11:00-11:40 | DONEGAN-2 | ZEGAR-1 | PACK UP BOOKS |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | KRUVI -3 | |||
| 12:45 – 1:25 | GUSS-K | KOON-K | ||
| 1:15 – 1:45
2:00 – 2:30 |
HOLLIDAY-6 | BARLOW -5
DOMNITZ -6 |
Parents are welcome to visit the Fair any time during the day; you may also accompany your child before or after school, or during their scheduled class visit.
Please keep in mind, we are now required to charge sales tax. To help students mange their money, we will provide them with a handy chart to quickly calculate these extra charges. Please include an extra few dollars in your student’s book budget.
We Need Volunteers
As always, we need many hands to make the fair happen! The Fair is made possible with invaluable input from Ms. Shostal and the HCES staff, as well as the incredible parents who volunteer their time. As always, we need volunteers to help us turn the library into a pop-up book shop. Extra hands for setup and breakdown are especially appreciated. Sign up for a slot or two here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0445a4ab2fa57-winter
If you have any questions, please contact Ada Chamberlain or Melissa Hurwitz at bookfair@hcespta.org
You can give as little or as much of your time during that week as you are able — we appreciate every ounce of help!
Used Books
It is the Book Fair’s policy that no child who wants a book will leave the Fair without one. We will have a wide range of new and gently used books available for all grade levels.
Donating gently used books is a wonderful way to recycle books your child enjoyed but has outgrown, and ensures that no child leaves the fair without a book. We are looking for children’s picture books, easy readers, chapter books (beginner and advanced) and current reference books. Please do not send board books or adult books — those we can accept in the spring, for the Carnival Book Sale.
Donated books can be delivered to your child’s classroom teachers (with the bag clearly marked “Book Fair), or better still, left in the library with Ms. Shostal.
Again, please feel free to contact Book Fair co-chairs, Ada Chamberlain or Melissa Hurwitz, with any questions. They can be reached at: bookfair@hcespta.org.