This week, we kick off our
Follett Book eFair! We are so excited to start a new year with our readers hosting this special event.
A Follett Book eFair is an online book fair. Follett Book eFairs are available to all PreK-8 schools in the US, and there is no minimum sales requirement.
Let me show you how it works and what we are doing to kick this off for our readers, teachers, and families.
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....
.....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 with a marker and hung around the school.
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,
