The Home School Book Fair is a Christian event sponsored by Hearth & Home Ministries. (For more information about Hearth and Home Ministries, see Contact Us.) Every effort is made to ensure that products and workshops are compatible with Biblical values. There are more than 200 booths selling thousands of home school products. There are 30 workshops and special events throughout the day. The Program is identical on both Friday and Saturday, so that you can come both days and take it all in. We encourage everyone to do so!

CD's and audiotapes of most of the workshops will be sold at the Book Fair by
Bluebird Tapes & CD's- 972-542-3906 donkopski@waymark.net

Check Room available to leave purchases, personal belongings, etc. free of charge.

The Arlington Convention Center has expanded and children of all ages are welcome to attend. However, we urge parents NOT to bring their small children (7 and under) because the Book Fair is a long and tiring event for them and we do not have childcare facilities. Parents with children at the Book Fair must make sure they are supervised at all times. Families whose children run loose throughout the Center will be asked to take them home. If children are likely to make noise at a workshop that is being audiotaped, we ask their parents to sit in the back of the room with them.

Emergency Phone Number
(for babysitters)
1-817-459-5034
May 8 and 9, 2009 only

NO STROLLERS - NO CARTS
NO WAGONS - NO WHEELED LUGGAGE

Due to the large size of our crowds and near-accidents that occurred in the past, strollers (and other wheeled vehicles) are not to be used anywhere inside the Arlington Convention Center -- for the safety of small children and everyone else. Parents may push their children in strollers into the Arlington Convention Center. As soon as they enter, they will be asked to check their strollers in the Check Room and leave them there for the day. When they are ready to leave, they may remove their strollers from the Check Room and stroll their little ones out to the parking lot. The same holds true for other wheeled vehicles.

Mothers usually carry their nursing babies in front packs while at the Book Fair. There is a Nursing Mothers Room (M-3) where mothers may take their babies to nurse or nap. There is also a lounge with a couch in the women's bathroom in the Grand Hall where mothers may nurse. We ask that mothers use discretion about when and where they nurse.

City of Arlington fire regulations do not allow anyone to sit on the floor anywhere in the Arlington Convention Center, and they severely restrict the number of chairs and benches that can be set up in the passageways. Therefore if families are looking for places to sit down and rest, we recommend the following areas: (1) the back of the Exhibit Hall where chairs line the wall or (2) the Lunch Room (Salon C).

If you purchase a lot of heavy books and don't wish to carry them to your car, you may leave them at the Check Room. At the end of the day you may pull your car up to the entrance nearest the Check Room and have your books brought to your car.

There is a beautiful new lunch room at the Arlington Convention Center selling delicious lunches. Snacks will be sold as usual at the concession stands. We suggest that home schoolers NOT bring sack lunches from home. The Center does not permit sack lunches or any other food brought in from the outside to be consumed inside the building, and they do not have adequate picnicking facilities outside the building.

$5.00 per car per day. In-and-out privileges permitted. Entrances to the parking lot are off Copeland Road and Ballpark Way on the south side of the Convention Center.

Home School Day
To be announced
For more information, call Metro 817-530-6050.
The Home School Book Fair is not associated with this event.

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