SLAS Times 2015/2016 Fall 2015 PDF | Page 14

TO BE WISER THROUGH BOOKS BY JOE WU Recently, Shanghai Livingston American School (SLAS) organized a book fair event. It involved reconnecting with the record of human knowledge, and with the way people used to trade. This event was called the Book Fair and it only went on for two days, from October 13th to October 14th. Mr. Zeng Wei, a salesman from Shanghai Book Traders (SBT) said, “The main purpose of this fair was to let the students buy foreign books easier in China.” He added, “Our products are diverse, from children’s story books to novels and fiction, as well as stationary.” This year, the Book Fair started from 8:30am to 5pm. It was located at the multi-purpose room on the first floor. The SBT successfully organized the event. The clean and organized layout helped people to find the books they wanted. Each table in the fair had a different category. The books were favored by different groups of people. Primary students would 14 prefer to buy children’s books and comics like Legos and Children’s Book of Philosophy. Secondary students would prefer to read novels like Hunger games and Harry Potter. There was also interesting books like The Act of Film Magic and many others. There were many books with eye catching graphics as well. Mr. Zeng Wei also said, “This event was formed by an outside organization SBT, and the Principal Martinez allowed it.” He added, “The price of the books depended on what kind they are, from 28RMB to 500RMB.” This year, many students and teachers were eager to attend the Book Fair and bought books directly from the event. People were satisfied by the wide and diverse types of books. This was the fifth book fair on the SLAS campus, and our campus community hopes to participate in the book fair event next fall.