Another Reason To Love Scholastic

A lot of companies, when they can't fill your order, will either offer you a substitution or refund your money. Scholastic does both, and then still fills your original order

In our last order, one book we wanted was back ordered and another was no longer available. Instead of just saying, "oops, sorry." Scholastic not only sent me coupons for the amounts of the books and a replacement for the one that's not available, they also sent me the backordered book. They refunded my money, and then sent me the product anyway. Scholastic rocks!

In other news, we're having a different sort of difficulty with this month's order. Diva Girl and I are having trouble agreeing on our choices; other than a new copy of Charlotte's Web, our circles aren't matching up. Even there, we're having a bit of debate: She wants the copy with Dakota Fanning on the cover, and I don't. Call me a book snob, but I really, really hate movie tie in covers. I'm a purist; I prefer my books with their original art, not a movie poster, on the cover and that "Now a major motion picture!" banner that is inevitably plastered across the front makes me cringe. I hate the idea that that somehow validates the novel; that if it's a movie, it must be ok to read.

The rest of our choices are even farther apart. Sabrina wants the new Hannah Montana and Zach and Cody novels while I'm leaning towards the Sir Cumference pack. I've had my eye on it for awhile now, and I'm trying to keep my promise to bring more non-fiction home this year. Diva Girl is understandably unimpressed. Afterall, how can the adventures of some math geek possibly compare with the shenanigans of those crazy twins?

I'm not sure, but one of the great things about being the grown up is that I'm the one writing the cheque, Maybe I'll get lucky, and there will be so many mean mommies out there that Sir Cumference will be back ordered. If he is, do you think that they'll send me some Greg Tang to make up for it? Well, a mom can dream.

Comments

But it's Dakota Fanning. Surely you could make an exception.

I sooooo agree with you - I do NOT like movie references/pics on book covers. In this case, I think it is a double "insult" to the original book to have a character from the movie which is based on the original book on the cover (to get more sales maybe by enticing little girls into buying it because there is DAKOTA FANNING!!!! on the cover?)

I like books better - I do watch movies based on the books I like. Only to compare them to the book and then crib about how they twisted the story line. I liked the movie "Charlotte's Web" but I still wouldn't buy a book "based" on the movie. To me, that is sacrilege.

I'm with you--we have the original Charlotte's Web cover (or at least, what I think of as the original--who knows what it looked like back in the day?), and I'm opposed to movie tie-ins for children's books. The Bee has been reading a ton of Beverly Cleary lately, there seem to be a whole lot more Ramona books than I remember from childhood.

As far as non-fiction goes, we've got a bunch of dinosaur books, but it's definitely an area where we need to branch out.

In agreement. It's amazing, though. When I send the orders home, the ONLY thing that gets ordered are the "junk food" books. Now, we all need a bit of junk food-maybe Diva Girl could use her own money to buy one? or do some extra chores to earn one?-but it doesn't make for a full time diet. Good luck! I love Scholastic, too! (Or maybe it's just BOOKS!) lol

momx5
~who could spend hundreds of dollars on books every month!

I;m right there with you. Those damn twins, my daughter will go right to that section of the book oreder and demand only the books with Zack and Cody or the gang from the High School Musical. Gag.

Agree with momx5 - we have achieved some sort of "balance" between the "junk" and the "good" books. Our daughter can choose one such book OCCASIONALLY - and we set a monetary limit on it - and rest of them have to be a mix of fiction/non-fiction. Sometimes, if she wants something beyond the "quota", she has to use her pocket money for it. But mostly, she likes the Geronimo Stilton, Junie B.Jones, Magic Tree House series and such.

I'm a mean Mama. I absolutely refuse to buy My Little Ponies or High School Musicals or any other merchandising type book. They're trash, and I refuse to waste valuable shelf space on them. If Diva Girl wants to get them from the library, that's cool. But they don't live here.

I used to make myself crazy comparing movies to the books, but now I just tend to live in my own blissful reality in which my favourite novels have not been co-opted by Hollywood. In fact, I've never seen a Harry Potter film. I've heard they're fairly faithful, but I'm just not interested in visualizing someone else's imagination. Although I have to confess I've seen the LOTR trilogy several times and love it (mmmmm....Aragorn.....)

There is one movie I saw after reading the book that portrayed the movie almost exactly how I had it imagined in my head...Kimberly, have you seen Memoirs of a Geisha? It's soooooo good. I don't think it's the plot that goes right along as much as the scenery and setting. I was really impressed.

"I absolutely refuse to buy My Little Ponies or High School Musicals or any other merchandising type book."

Hey now...my mom pulled out the boxes of our childhood books and I am so excited that Molly's favorite is Rainbow Brite Saves Spring. (I mean, after all, what would we do if Murky Dismal and Lurky spread gloom and doom all over Rainbow Land and it never warmed up?) But I am also equally pleased that she loves "Ballerina Bess" and "My Icky Picky Sister" (which were my favorite books when I first learned how to read).

Thanks for the delurking comment. I was trying to figure out "who is Kimberley" until I came over here and read about Diva Girl and Zen Baby.

You can't fool me for long. I did know your name - just couldn't make the connection for a moment.