Book Fair

The Sea of Knowledge Book Fair: Excelsior Springs Middle School by Jestin Taylor

            The book fair this year has been a blast. Between the events leading up to it and the book fair itself, every step of the way has been a great community effort. There have been many contributors from Excelsior Springs that have donated their time and resources to help make this one of the best book fairs yet. Along with the community, the students have helped to bring this entire book fair together. Overall this book fair has been a great success.

            One of the contributors was the father of a student; he made the giant Ursula statue, from the little mermaid. Another donator was a kind person who helped us to reach our goal for the all for books project. Some of the other sponsors were local businesses that donated prizes for the games; such as the pirate wheel of fortune.

            For us as the students; the book fair has been a huge blast as well as a big responsibility. We’ve been in charge of helping to set up the decorations for the entire book fair. From the moment that the book fair itself was announced we’ve been in charge of helping to hype the events that were happening with it; from the fair being buy-one get-one free to the squid hat event that was revolving around the teachers.

            The book fair itself was extraordinary. We had a large turnout, the book fair being difficult to navigate at times in fact. Some members of the community also donated an abundance of snacks for people to eat during the fair, which was an extremely nice thing for them to do. We had raffles that gave some of the guests a prize, so that they might come back again another year.