LOS ANGELES - Can you feel the nostalgia of excitement brewing in your belly?

Once you walked through those school doors and saw the shelves filled with new books erected in the library of your elementary school, you knew it was going to be a great week.

From "Goosebumps," "The Adventures of Captain Underpants," and "The Magic School Bus," the book fair was a glorious time to get excited about books and reading, and for some students, an excuse to get out of class for a short reprieve.

The Scholastic book fair

Though the idea of a book fair was not the brainchild of Scholastic, they certainly popularized it in recent history.

Dig deeper:

After purchasing a California book fair business in 1982, Scholastic launched its first in-school book fair.

From there, series such as "The Baby

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