Primary school book club - mid-80s?

whoami1

Does anyone remember a book-club or book-buying scheme in operation in primary schools in the mid-80s? What was it called? The teacher would produce a new leaflet every few weeks and you could choose from all sorts of books which would then arrive into the classroom a few days later in a big cardboard box, a bit like Amazon only years earlier.

Anyone tell me what it was called?

L1011

Kids/Schools version of the service offered by The Book People was what we had in my school every month, although there was also an Irish one that turned up occasionally full of Gill & Macmillan etc stuff alongside Dorling Kindersley books.

fussyonion

Don't know the name of it..was it the Book Fair?
I distinctly remember looking forward to buying the Magic Key series of books, though.

dorado

Hi,
I think it was the Setanta Book Club. Maybe?
I recently went to a charity shop in Ireland and I bought a children's book I had read in the 1980s- and tucked inside it was someone's carefully cut-out slip from Setanta and all the books they'd ticked off that they wanted. I wonder if they wondered what happened to it!
Anyway, I grew up in the 1980s and that piece of paper rang some bells for me when I saw it, so perhaps it's the one you are thinking of too.