The school year's been packed with have-to writing, but for many children keeping a journal introduces pleasure writing. There are many new books to help you introduce the concept and show how many forms journals can take. Journals, a Way to Discover the World Journals can record the natural world. Their growth and their northern landscape is captured in beautiful paintings by Lucia Washburn and George compares the wolves' life events to those of children.
Journals can be a wonderful way to discover history.
Lately some wonderful books have been published that are recorded in diary form. She must leave her cat and move to lonely lighthouse, perched on barren rocks when her Papa becomes its keeper. Sensitive, poetic Birdie describes her adaption and the dramatic night when she must tend the lighthouse in a terrible storm while her father lies ill. The youngest daughter of Russia's last tsar kept a more visual journal. Pictures and letter excerpts recount her charmed royal life and later, difficult exile.