When I was a little girl, I loved book fair! The day the preview magazine was passed out was pretty much the best day of school. Field Day couldn't hold a candle to Book Fair preview magazine day. I would rush home and begin to frantically circle the books that I wanted to buy at the book fair. If I just HAD to have a book I would draw five stars next to it and dog ear the page so my Mom knew for sure it was important. Of course, after I was done, the entire magazine was circled, starred, and dog eared until you almost couldn't recognize the pages! :)

So when the book fair bus rolled up outside of Ashley Elementary at the end of last week, I jumped for joy! The wonderful PTA ladies came strolling in with their streamers, paper monsters, and signs of every color - I was in Heaven!! 

If you haven't seen the Book Fair this year, you are missing out. The books are fantastic ( I want a copy of every single one!). And the decorations are really cool!

So stop by the Book fair for some Monster Reads and some childhood memories! 
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So as a librarian I get a lot of this - "Mrs. Whittaker, where are the joke books?" "Where are the Bad Kitty books?" "Where are the 39 CLue books?" "Where are the Science books?" Where? Where? WHERE?

So let's take a break each week to figure out the location of some really fun, but sometimes hard to find, books!

Eric Comstock dropped in to the Ashley Library today and it was no mystery that the K-3 students had an absolutely amazing time!

We were treated to a reading of his newest children's book, Charlie Piechart and the Case of the Missing Pizza Slice. Mr. Comstock has illustrated numerous books before, but Charlie Piechart is his first endeavor as an author. The kiddos loved his presentation on where characters come from and how they could create characters of their very own! 

I have to admit, I was a little starstruck myself! He might be the nicest person I have ever met and maybe even the tallest! Mrs. Tinker and I had to stand on two chairs just to take a picture with him before he left. Haha! He worked so hard to sign every copy of Charlie Piechart that our students ordered - and we ordered a lot! In fact, Ashley Elementary ordered more copies of Mr. Comstock's book than any other school in the district. Way to go Ashley!