help! bookmark, $19 for 5 clips. Available at designboom.com Photo courtesy of designboom.com

Click on the photo to get yourself the most desparately adorable bookmark out there. Photo courtesy of designboom.com

I remember in elementary school when the Scholastic Book Fair would come to town.  The library would be abuzz with eager students, wadded up dollar bills in hand.  Buying books is just so much more fun than borrowing them I guess.

I’d get ultra excited looking through the preview brochure until it was our class’s turn to visit the pop-up store. Sometimes I would buy a book because of the cover like No Flying in the House by Betty Brock or I’d buy a cute puppy poster because I was an 8 year old girl.  But every time, without fail, I’d be sure to get a bookmark.  Even though most of my reading was comprised of R.L. Stine Fear Street books where teenagers were murdered one by one mostly by friends, I purchased Garfield bookmarks with silly sayings and brightly colored tassels.  Now, had this help! bookmark been available, I’m sure my sick childhood brain would have been all over it.

Each stainless steel paper clip measures 45×12mm and features little arms and hands on one end that make your book appear to have flat silvery people drowning in its pages.