# Who Would Be Interested in Being a Doper Book Fairy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930 "2003-09-16T12:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/41 "2003-09-17T03:11:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aries28 \* > So, before I try to pull this together I would like to know who might be interested in doing this. Get ahold of your local Scholastic Book Fairs warehouse. We almost always have “donatable” items. Unfortunately you are not in my area. Toss me an email and I will try to put you in contact with someone in your neighborhood. I will see what I can do from here too. I’m not sure how the accounting works but there are times where we as a company donate of literally millions of dollars in books to toys4tots and the like. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/42 "2003-09-17T03:12:28Z")
Count me in! I got lots of books. I’m sure I can get some American Girls, how about the Dear America series? email in profile. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/43 "2003-09-17T03:14:22Z")
Count me in. Put SDMB in the email subject for me, too. (You might have already emailed me from the other thread, but I haven’t been able to check my email yet today.) ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/44 "2003-09-17T13:51:41Z")
What do you think about Harry Potter? Have they read those yet? I have just recently discovered them, and am enchanted myself! ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/45 "2003-09-17T20:54:44Z")
Okay, here’s what I got. I chose some that I remembered reading in elementary school. I also tried to cover girls and guys (for instance, Encyclopedia Brown is a detective story featuring a kid, but girls would like it too… I did!) The Giver by Lois Lowry Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary Henry and the Clubhouse also by Beverly Cleary Encyclopedia Brown’s Book of Strange but True Crimes by Sobol Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case also by Sobol. Please tell me where to ship! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/46 "2003-09-17T23:36:29Z")
Count me in as well – e-mail in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/47 "2003-09-17T23:54:33Z")
You guys ROCK! My hotmail account is bursting with emails of big hearted Dopers offering books, art supplies, candy, trinkets from their states and wonderful ideas about the whole Book Fairy thing. I am SOOOO happy! I was worried I wouldn’t be able to do as much for my class this year since I’m at a new company but it appears I’ll actually be doing MORE! YAY!!! I cannot express how grateful I am to you guys and how excited I am to get my new class and start sharing this with them. It will be Friday or Saturday before I can start responding to you all individually again with my mailing address and such. I am in a 20 hour class for my job until Friday and it is intense. I will be tested on what they have crammed into these 2 1/2 days Friday afternoon so I am about to sit down and crack the books. Believe me, I would much rather work on this project! 😉 Duplicate books are fine. If I wind up with way too many of the same one I can always donate them directly to the MORE program to benefit one of our other schools. Couple of suggestions/thoughts I have had and gotten from various Dopers about the Book Fairy plan: 1. I will only give you the first names of my kids. Not that I don’t trust Dopers, but it is a nutty world and I would want someone to respect my children’s privacy in the same manner. I hope no one is offended by this. 2. I am going to get a map of the US (or world map depending on all the Doper participants) so the kids and I can plot out where each of you guys are so they can see how many people are getting involved with this. I think they will find it very cool. 3. Once I get my class list I will post first names only along with what books or interests each child has given me. From there you can “adopt” a child. I would really like to do this on a monthly basis but if you can only afford to do one month, tell me and I’m sure there will be others who would also like to pair up and take a single month. TRUST ME…I won’t let any kids be left out. That was my #1 goal last year and I always had extra prizes or things to ensure this NEVER happens. 4. If you could include a postcard from your state or a short note about your state I will make sure to pass these along. 5. Any surplus of books I get will be donated to this school’s library (believe me, they can use the books) or directly to the MORE program to benefit other schools where I am not a volunteer. I don’t want you to think your kind gifts of books will not be put to good use. They will. I’ll make sure of it. If I haven’t responded directly to you, please be patient with me. I never thought this would take off like it has and I am so overwhelmed. I might enlist **Sauron** to help me send out our address to those who have asked for it. Again, THANK YOU so much. You have no idea how much this school and these kids mean to me but I hope as I share their stories with you throughout this school year that you will in time. If you have any ideas of how I can better do this or things you think might work, let me know. I’ll take any input and it won’t hurt my feelings in the least. Have I said Thank you yet? Words cannot express how much you guys are helping. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/48 "2003-09-18T01:10:48Z")
please count me in as well, my email is in my profile 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/49 "2003-09-18T01:14:45Z")
I just bid on a set of 42 Newberry award books and books by Newberry authors on eBay, so please don’t anyone else here go up against me on this one! No point in going up against ourselves! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/50 "2003-09-18T02:46:33Z")
A box is already in route to your place. Should get it in 5-10 days. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/51 "2003-09-18T03:51:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*I just bid on a set of 42 Newberry award books and books by Newberry authors on eBay, so please don’t anyone else here go up against me on this one! No point in going up against ourselves! \*\* Would that be [this one](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3552633429&category=1095), **Mama Tiger**? That’s a GREAT deal! If that’s you, I hope you’re the only bidder – that would be awesome. I found this auction, too, which is another great one… [31 Fear Street paperbacks by R.L. Stine](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3551369931) $12.00 + $4.55 shipping. 22 Hours to go. No bids yet. If someone wants to bid on this lot, post here and let me know. Otherwise, if no one posts and there are still no bids near the close of the auction tomorrow, I may consider it, myself. (I’m just so afraid of going overboard here – I have such a soft spot for this and so much trouble resisting a bargain! :)) Dang, I should’ve known better than to surf while waiting for this thing to preview… [15 Boy’s Chapter Books](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3551635114&category=29182) $8.00 + $3.50 s/h. [26 Children’s Chapter books](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3551646033&category=29182) $5.00 + $4.85 s/h. Any takers on these? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930/52 "2003-09-18T16:12:21Z")
A couple of things. Would the librarian at the school (or even a related one) be interested in this: [http://www.bluejeanonline.com/other\_stuff/other\_stuff\_live/LibrariansMakeaDifference.html](http://www.bluejeanonline.com/other_stuff/other_stuff_live/LibrariansMakeaDifference.html) It’s the “Why librarians make a difference contest” and of the entries, four will win $300 for YA books. I thought I’d pass the link along, though they may already know about it. Then, I went to the used bookstore this morning. I spent all of $22 on books. I tried to get a variety, including those that aren’t the Newberry or award winning ones, just those that looked like someone might like them. I got: Margaret Mahy - The Greatest Show Off Earth Virginia Sorensen - Plain Gir Mary Rogers - Freaky Friday Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories from Wayside School Howard Pyle - The Garden Behind the Moon (I just realized that this one is an advanced uncorrected proof. Let me know if that’s a problem) Bruce Coville- Aliens ate my homework Harry Mazer - A Boy at War, a novel of Pearl Harbor Herb Dunn - Jackie Robinson, Young Sports Trailblazer Walter Dean Myers - The Righteous Revenge Betty Miles - Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book Claudia Mills - Losers, Inc. Barbara Park - Skinnybones Gordon Korman - The Toilet Paper Tigers Brenda Seabrooke - The Dragon that ate Summer Matt Christopher - On the field with Emmitt Smith Bette Bao Lord - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Thomas Rockwell - How to Eat Fried Worms Betsy Byars - McMummy Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach (I really wanted Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the only copy they had was really beat up) Robert Montgomery - Home Run Sports Illustrate Kids’ books - Ken Griffey Jr. Dominique Moceanu - autobiography Kristi Nelson - The Chamique Holdsclaw Story Chip Lovitt - Michael Jordan Lisa Eisenberg - Babe Ruth, Baseball’s Greatest Legend Jane Yolen - Wizard’s Hall The Accidental Mosters series, #1-3 -The Vanishing Vampire -The Unwilling Witch -The Wavering Werewolf I debated on the sports biography books, because I know sports figures can fall out of style very fast. But they were a quarter each, except for the Babe Ruth one, and that was 75 cents, so I figured that even if no one reads them, it’s not a waste. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-interested-in-being-a-doper-book-fairy/201930.md?page=2)