Kidstuff Books was brought up at a recent PTA meeting, but the reception was lukewarm as it's fairly new to our area in NJ. I tried finding info on the web, but to no avail. The way it was suggested that we intro it was problematic to me (sending it home with kids, if the parents like it they send in check, if they don't they return it ). On the whole though if it was marketed correctly to the parents I see potential.

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Kidstuff books were sold in my Kindergartener's school this year as an alternative to Entertainment books. Personally, I have found them to be more useful than the Entertainment books but you would need to look through one to see for yourself. I think we made 50% profit ($12.50 per book). Of course, the hardest part is keeping track of which books did not sell and needed to be returned by parents.

Our school has done Kid Stuff for the past 3 years now and it is one of the more popular fundraisers with our families. The first year we conducted this fundraiser, there were so many families that did not return the books, that now the company will only allow us to take book orders. We still do OK and the company was surprised at how many we sell with out giving the book out first. Sadly, we discovered our parents need to “re-learn” the core values we teach to our kids; trust, responsibility, integrity, hope, courage!!

Our elementary school has been selling Kidstuff books for at least 10 years. They are very popular. I sell 4 myself to friends that have kids in HS and college but have continuted to buy them for the last 7 years because they are such a good value. We have a pretty good system of tracking down, we do send the books home with the kids but usually get back all but 1 or 2 books. Pretty good out of 300 students.
We used to give our teachers a copy after all books were returned but now we just give them a copy right off. Can't beat the 50% profit! Let me know if you want more details.

I am trying desperately to find ANY infromation about Kidstuff books for fundraiser for my preschool. I don't have any idea how to begin. Any ideas?? Thanks.

The band at my daughter's school sold these. Before we were given an book, we had to send in a form saying that we were interested in selling/buying a book. Then the book was sent home to us. This way they can keep track of who was given books.