Support Summer Reading With Your Follett Book eFair! Check Out How We Kicked It Off With Our Readers Today!

This week, we kick off our Follett Book eFair! We are so excited to host one more eFair to support summer reading with our readers and their families. 

Have you heard of the Follett Book eFairs, friends? 

A Follett Book eFair is an online book fair. It's a book fair for everyone! They are a fun and easy way for PreK-8th grade students and families to shop for books while your school earns rewards.  With popular characters and the hottest new releases, everyone is sure to find something they love. 

Follett Book eFairs are available to all PreK-8 schools in the US, and there is no minimum sales requirement.  It's the perfect type of book fair to bring to your school community anytime of the year, but perfect with limited time left at the end of the school year and as we support summer reading. 

Let me show you how it works and what we are doing to kick this off for our readers, teachers, and families.

First, go to Follett Book eFairs and register here.

You sign up with the dates and details. 

A few weeks before your Follett Book eFair, a super cool box of materials will be delivered to your school. 

The box includes everything you need as you host Follett Book eFair.....

...Title Highlight Flyers to hand out to your readers, 

Promotional Posters, Goals Posters, Computer Monitor Sign, 

...and this great Coordinator Checklist and Guide. 

This box of materials pairs perfectly with the...

....Follett Book eFair site that organizes all of the details you need to set up, promote, organize and run your eFair. 

When you log into the Follett Book eFairs site, 

you will find links to Promote eFair, View Book, View Orders and download Orders Report. 

It's helpful having a few different ways to share the eFairs including a code and direct link. 

There is also a place to Manage Teacher Wish Lists. They just go to the link to manage their wish list and adding books they'd like for their classroom. 

By adding the teachers, it will also make it easier to distribute books after they are shipped to your school, because the orders are then grouped together for each teacher. 

We can also promote our Follett Book eFair by sending reminder emails to the parents who have order from previous eFairs.  As we have more and more eFairs, our list will grow and this will become a great way to promote them. 

Oh, and guess what?  There is a special Teacher Discount Code you can give your teachers. They get a 20% discount off full-priced items by entering the code in their cart. They will love this! 

As students and families log into our Follett Book eFair site,  they will see a message and the Goal that you set for your eFair. They can click on any of the images to go to that genre, and...

...choose from a drop down menu that features Picture Books, Beginning Readers, Chapter Books, and Middle Grade Fiction. 

At the very top of the page, I set up Staff Recommendations by choosing several books I wanted to highlight at our eFair and ones I know our readers will love. 

There are lots of visual ways to search for books, and books can be typed into the search bar too. 

With the details and our Follett Book eFair set up, I also wanted to download several materials to promote and celebrate our eFair. 

On the site, you will find the area to Promote My eFair with lots of resources like...

.....Download Materials to Share, which includes several types of materials to download and share including Quick Start Guides, 

Message Templates, 

Digital Promotion, and...

....Posters and Signs. 

With the posters and signs, you can even type in the details and print them in color or black and white.

These were also a great addition to the posters and flyers we got with the box of materials that we filled out and added a QR code and bit.ly to make it super easy for everyone to use and order from. 

I took a few of the posters and signs...

...to make a little flyer to attach to the Title Highlight Flyers. 

It's been so much fun talking to our students about the books they see in the flyers as they take these home this week. They are very excited. 

As our Follett Book eFair continues over the next few weeks, I will give an update or two on my blog and social.  So follow along, 

and sign up for your eFair here today.