Books·Posted on Sep 8, 201419 Things All People Who Loved The Scholastic Book Fair Will RememberIt's like walking into a Book Fair-y tale.by Alexis NeddBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Marking the day on your binder calendar weeks in advance. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. Quivering with anticipation starting Monday on the week of the fair. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 3. Leaping out of bed like a bibliophilic gazelle when the day FINALLY came! Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 4. Fighting your classmates to be first in line out of the classroom when it was your homeroom's turn to go. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 5. That first magical look at your school gym or assembly hall transformed into a fantasy landscape of cardboard bookshelves. View this photo on Instagram 6. Ah, the smell of all of those books. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 7. And that first stab of confusion you felt when you realized you didn't know where to start. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 8. Do you go straight for the hard stuff? View this photo on Instagram 9. Do you make a beeline for standards like Junie B. Jones, The Magic Tree House, or Animorphs? 10. Or how about that amazing feeling when you realized they sold a sequel that you didn't even know had come out yet? View this photo on Instagram 11. It's very likely that you went into Book Warp Mode, blacked out, and emerged an hour later with an order sheet longer than your arm. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 12. But you also took time to become a world-class philanthropist when you bought an extra book for your school's library. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Fast forward a week or so when your book order actually arrived and you got to pick up your shrink-wrapped treasures. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 14. And you bonded with your friends over your respective hauls. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 15. And spent the whole day sneaking the books into classes so you could get a head start on the story. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 16. Has any feeling in your adult life come close to that feeling? Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 17. No. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 18. So thank you, Scholastic Book Fair, for the memories. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 19. And for encouraging us to become lifelong readers. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF The Scholastic Book Fairs are still happening! Find your closest fair here, or visit Scholastic's website!