Re-Readathon #3: Nostalgia, aka remember the Scholastic Book Club?

Bex is the best for hosting! I love taking the time to revisit books that stuck with me and am excited to be doing this challenge. I tend to hoard books - these are the only things I haven't touched during my year of decluttering (forget you, Marie Kondo)! This makes it much easier to grab books for a re-readathon :)

I'm currently re-reading the Little House series for the trillionth time. I first got the boxed set by ordering them from the Scholastic book club flyer that my 4th grade teacher passed out. It was a booklet of popular books and their brief summaries. The last page of the flyer was an order form that you could give to the teacher, along with cash in an envelope. Three loooong weeks later, the books would be delivered to the classroom for you to take home! This was the golden age of book-ordering in the pre-Amazon prime days. It was a pretty genius method of getting children addicted to book buying. Man, they got me good. 

Book ordering in the 90s: Yes! Animorphs!!

Super complicated ordering form

My teacher had us read Little House in the Big Woods and got me hooked on the series (thanks, Mrs. Scarff) so I just HAD to have the rest of the books! Nerd alert: I struck a promise with my mom that if I got straight A's for a trimester, I could have the money to order the boxed set. My Asian 'tiger-mom' actually got me to score straight A's in exchange for more books. What a pro. 

Anywho, now I have a box set that's survived 5 moves with me and is still nestled in my bookshelf to this day. These books have a special place in my heart and are definitely the first on my list for this week's readathon.

What are your nostalgic reads? Did you ever order through a mail-in flyer/book club? Hoping I'm not the old, pre-"e-ordering" chick around here!!