Why Catholic Schools Should Scrap Scholastic Book Fairs by Jean Schoonover-Egolf in Crisis Magazine

 

https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/catholic-schools-scrap-scholastic-book-fairs

There are, thankfully, options for suitable replacements for Scholastic. 

Good News! Book Fairs is a rapidly-growing Catholic company now booking fairs. They guarantee the products they sell at their fairs will not conflict with our faith. 

The Daughters of St. Paul’s “JClub” is becoming more widely known as well, and it also promises to stock only clean books and goods at their school fairs. 

Ignatius Press has teamed up with a few publishers for Eureka Book Fair, but at this time the selection is limited to a few publishers. 

For help screening kids’ lit, parents, teachers, and librarians have several options available. The Catholic Writer’s Guild provides a list of books, both fiction and nonfiction, that have earned their Seal of Approval. 

Virtue Works Media features a “V-List,” an ever-expanding list of books, movies, etc. that are reviewed and rated according to their virtue content. 

Catholic Reads is an online service that not only reviews books of all genres by Catholic authors, but also offers book deals to subscribers. 

And for those hard-to-find suitable Young Adult reads there’s Catholic Teen Books, an author-run website providing information about plenty of excellent page-turners that are morally sound.