Apr 5, 2010

Journal Buddies Review and Giveaway CLOSED

Do you have a budding writer in your family? I think we have at least one so when I heard about Journal Buddies, I was super excited to check them out. Jill, graciously sent two copies of her Journal Buddies for boys, so each of the older boys could have one. They were very excited about them as they arrived at about the same time we'd started to get into Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Johnny, who's 6 hasn't done much writing in his. But we've talked about some of the topics and he's done some drawing. I think it will be fun to look back on these drawings and hopefully he'll add some writing as he gets to be a little more confident in his writing/spelling skills.
Timmy has done substantially more writing in his. I have been nosy and checked it out but will be respecting his privacy at least enough not to share here. But it's cool to see a 7 year old's perspective on topics such as "pride." He was pretty cute when he got it too because the first night he took it to bed so he could thoroughly read the 'instructions' before he began to do any writing! Apparently he gets his instructions gene from his father because I'm the one who jumps in without reading unless something goes terribly wrong and forces me to read them!

I will encourage them to keep going in these journals and eventually put them away for them with the select few other things we keep for them to look back on as they grow. Along the way I've lost all that sort of stuff from when I was younger and I think it's a cool piece of your history to have no matter how trivial the things written may seem now.




Win one: Journal Buddies author, Jill Schoenberg, has graciously given TWO copies of Journal Buddies for Boys to be given away on my blog.

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Disclosure: I was not paid for this review but was provided with two copies of the journal for my boys to use to facilitate my honest feedback of the book.

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