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Programs for Kids
Our Commitment to Children
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For almost two decades Parkplace Books has been committed to providing an outstanding Children’s Department. It has been our priority to help our local schools provide their students with the best in Children’s Literature. By offering outstanding customer service and a knowledgeable staff, we hope that you will come to us with your book needs. With your help we can keep one of the last independent bookstores on the Eastside viable and providing for all of your book needs.
Special Programs for Children & Schools
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Book Fairs
Parkplace Books offers a full book fair program. To guarantee a successful fair, we will work with librarians or a PTSA to customize selections for each student body and curriculum, and ensure that the books you are selling are of the same high caliber of children’s fiction and nonfiction that you see in the store. We will furnish the books you need several days before your fair, and include an inventory list by title. At the end of the fair, you return any unsold books to us; we will only bill you for those sold. In addition your school will be credited 15% of the retail sales amount (before sales tax) toward future book purchases from our store. We also arrange in-store book fairs, and on those occasions invite local authors for kids and families to meet. This is an especially successful event close to the holidays. Again the 15% credit of sales will accrue to the school.
Author School Visits
We can assist in reaching and/or recommending authors for your school and provide the books for those visits.
In-Store Events
We periodically have visiting authors in the store, and encourage schools to bring their students here to visit with them. We usually schedule two classes at a time for one hour each starting at 9:30-11:30 am. These events are free of charge, and we will provide an advance purchase order form for the author’s books as we find that many kids are excited to go home with a signed copy of an author’s book.
New Titles Program
We e-mail interested teachers and librarians a monthly list of new titles in children’s books that we feel are of interest to schools. Please e-mail us if you wish to be included in this program.
Display of Students’ Work
During the school year we are happy to display works by your young authors in the store, and to host a reading of their work at a book party.
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School Purchase Policy
Parkplace Books is pleased to offer the following purchase options to schools, teachers & librarians:
Cash Sales : Schools and PTSA’s may purchase books for classroom or library use at a 20% discount if paying in cash, check or charge card. Please note that some special orders may not be eligible for this discount.
Purchase Orders : We accept P.O.’s from all local school districts and books bought with P.O.’s receive a 15% discount. Please provide a P.O. number and/or document when placing orders. Again, some special orders may not be eligible for discount.
Gift Certificates
We
provide gift certificates in any denomination for school incentives.
These gift certificates are eligible for a 20% discount and are a great
way to encourage students to read.
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