^^^Not sure, but I do remember books called “Arrow” books but I think they were an age-based subset of Scholastic.
Glad everyone is digging the thread and the memories it evokes.
Sir Rhosis
I remember that! Yes, it was amazingly cool.
Arrow is for grades 4-5-6, and they are under Scholastic. In my daughter’s school, both Scholastic and Arrow fliers are sent home with kids in grades 3 and up. We can order off of both, but send in just one check.
I used to use these order forms also when I was in school from the mid 80’s to mid 90’s. I don’t recall ever seeing floppy disks, though. I do remember getting the books for Karate Kid and Karate Kid Part II, which were basically the transcripts for these movies made into novel form.
I still have a couple of Scholastic books. One is The Missing Persons League, which was a rather dark story for junior high kids.
I ordered books from them in the early 1960s, and my daughter did 10 years ago, so they seem to be quite active still. I got Challenge of the Spaceship by Arthur C. Clarke from them, which kicked my sf habit into high gear. Still have it and a crappy Silverberg book from the same order.
As for Scholastic as a publisher, remember they did Harry Potter in the US, and, with slightly lower sales, they published three books my wife wrote.
The first book I ever bought (ok, my parents bought it, but I picked it out and it was mine, mine, mine!) was from Scholastic. Where the Wild Things Are, and it came with a floppy vinyl 45 record of someone reading the book. Long gone, now. 
I think I may still have my copy of Old Bones, The Blue-Sighted Shadow. Somewhere.
I definitely remember the Scholastic catalogs from the 70’s. I ordered a ton of books from that thing. I loved all the Danny Dunn and Encyclopedia Brown books, Henry Reed, Miss Piggle Wiggle, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, a lot of Beverly Clearly. The Lemonade Trick (there were a bunch of other “Trick” books too, but that’s the only title I remember) I do remember reading Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, but I don’t remember if I got it from Scholastic or a library.
I seem to remember Judy Blume books being hot commodities because they were supposedly “dirty.” Looking back at them now, they were as safe as milk, but I guess it was shocking in the early-mid 70’s to even see the word “period” or “penis” in a children’s book.
No such thing!
I’m 25, and we had Scholastic until high school. My favorite part was always the book fair. I had my walls covered with every animal poster from them as well. They were my number one decorative source as a child.
Great nostalgia thread. I still have at least one of them- a little book on George Washington. I remember one that I got on Ben Franklin when I was in 3rd grade that told some anecdotes about him I never forgot and have used in analogies and quotes (looking up the original source obviously, not “according to a book I read in 3rd grade…”) as recently as this year! Amazing how things stay with you. (The one I used was about Franklin becoming irritated by a blowhard with an enormous house, a dinner table that serves dozens of people even though he rarely has guests, a coach with 4 horses- in other words conspicuous ostentation to the nth degree- and justifies it all with “because I can afford it”; Franklin asks him “why is your hat so small? Couldn’t you easily afford one that’s 20 times the size of your head?” and it’s not just the quote I remembered but the cartoonish picture (one suitable for a 3rd grade children’s book).
And they were so cheap IIRC, even adjusted for inflation. Weren’t the books usually under 1? I do remember that DYNAMITE was .75 when I was in 3rd Grade. (I wonder if any libraries have back issues of DYNAMITE— or of Weekly Reader for that matter.)
I wish I could remember one titles I bought- it was about the Lincoln Assassination and though it was for children/YAs it had pictures of the hangings and the trials with the defendants shackled. It was just awesome to a morbid kid! I’ve wanted to find the title for a story I’m writing (but admittedly I haven’t tried that diligently).
Sorry for any tangent, but thanks for the memories. (Weirdly I associate Scholastic Books with macrame, because we made macrame plant hangers for our mothers on Christmas when I was in about 4th grade or so and the books came in that day, so I was reading the book on famous American ghosts (still remember the subject) with one hand instead of doing whatever it is I was supposed to be doing to the rope with that hand and got fussed at by my teacher! (Good thing it wasn’t the Lincoln Conspiracy book or I might have made the plant hanger into a noose.)
I got a lot of Peanuts books that way. So did Mr. Rilch. When we combined our libraries, we had a lot of duplicates. (They are fast being made fully redundant by the new Fantagraphics collections.)
This was one of the good parts about being in an international school: twice a year, we got Scholastic, which was American, and Puffin, which was British. I was such a book junkie (still am), and my parents encouraged me to order as much as possible from them. I remember being really bitter, though, when they wouldn’t let me order some sort of sticker set or what have you and someone else in my class had got it.
YES!!! Me!!! I was a member, too!!! I still have my copy of “Adopted Jane”! 
VCNJ~
Yup, we had them in NZ in the late 80s/early 90s. There were two separate four page flyers that would come out, I think - Lucky, which was for younger readers, and Arrow, which was for older kids. My brothers and I were allowed $10 each, and I would get the latest Baby-Sitters Club book, and normally stickers or a poster.
I bought a Tamora Pierce novel through them, because it had a wolf on the cover, which kickstarted a fantasy obsession that lasted through my teens.
We were doublely lucky, because my aunt worked for Ashton Scholastics (the NZ/Australian distributor) and every month would give us a box of misprinted and end of run books. I never lacked for anything to read, and the older I get the more grateful I am for that.
Sir Rhosis, you mentioned these:
Old Bones-The Wonder Horse
Powder Keg
Lots of books with that title, check(currently)#9 and 13, by Donald Cooke
Strangely Enough
Snow Treasure
There was a short window of time during my childhood where I was very materially spoiled. I remember bringing those Scholastic order forms home with about ten things circled… and getting every one. I absolutely LOVED it; it was like Christmas.
Book Fairs were great too. I remember when I first got to high school, there were announcements posted all over that there was going to be a book fair. I was so excited. When the big day finally came, I walked into my school library and promptly discovered… the Book Fair was for the kindergartners who shared our building. :smack:
My oldest started kindergarten last year and they received fliers 5 or 6 times throughout the year. Right now she’s more excited about the ordering of the books then when they arrive.
The book I remember the most from my school years ('70s) was Alfred Hitchcock’s Happiness is a Warm Corpse; arrived just in time for Halloween, I can’t guess how many times I read that book.
You’ll get my copy when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I was just trying to think of the name of that glitzy pop culture magazine Scholastic put out. Thanks!