Best Children's Journal Writing

With design-savvy, yet completely kid-friendly illustrations, they’re asked to draw or write about a bunch of interesting things — like what their hair looks like, what their band name would be, what they’d bring to outer space, and how they feel about lightning, lizards and pickles. WEE SOCIETY is an award-winning creative studio that believes you’re never too young to develop an eye for design.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My granddaughter loved this book."
"My 7 year old absolutely loved this book."
"My son loves his book of all about him."
"Kids enjoy using this."
"Can't wait until my daughter is old enough to use this!"
"My 7 year old went through it pretty quickly."
"It’s a cute book."
"My 6-year-old grandson loved it!"

2 Journal Sparks: Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking
2018 Teachers' Choice Award Winner. 2017 Mom's Choice Awards Winner Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, award-winning author Emily K. Neuburger highlights the many paths into journaling. This trove of inspiring and practical ideas encourages us to push our creative boundaries and revel in the play between words and pictures.” — Alexandra Kennedy, executive director of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. At a time when all of us — children and adults — are deluged with pixels and information, Emily Neuburger inspires us to use a journal to notice, feel, connect, and reflect.” — Sam Intrator, professor of education and child study at Smith College.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Her School isn't teaching too much art, so I plan to use this book to introduce her to some new techniques, as well as get her to think creatively."
"I can't say enough good things about this book."
"A way to explore your creative side without a lot of pressure to be perfect!"
"As much fun to read as to put into practice to open creativity."
"Very Fun!"
"This book is awesome."
"Love so much I got one for a friend."

Design a galaxy of planets & super soldiers where good combats evil. Scout out top ten hiding places in case of alien invasion. Plus lots of hilarious questions, everyday stuff dudes around the world deal with, and blank journal pages for secret plans, weird dead bugs, and more. Since 2004, Mickey and Cheryl Gill have been creating social networking books, like the Coke or Pepsi?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's totally boy stuff like "what's worse: smelling someone else's dirty socks or eating someone else's boogers"."
"I always get great feedback from the parents reinforcing what a unique/great birthday gift these make."
"Son loves it - finally something to make him want to practice writing!"
"This is a really cool gift for boys."
"My son LOVES this."
"Its a great gift- probably what we want as parents- because it helps the creativity start boiling in my boys mind!"
"Looks cool."
Best Children's Handwriting Books

Workbooks in the popular Brighter Child series are packed with plenty of fun activities that teach a variety of essential school skills. With Brighter Child Handwriting: Printing, you can help your child master basic writing skills for school success.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"1st section is the letters of the alphabet, 2nd section has words starting from each letter of the alphabet and 3rd section has sentences."
"One of the things she struggles with is getting her letters in uniform sizes with correct spacing ."
"Great workbook but make sure to make COPIES before using it because theres only one sheet for each letter."
"Each page in the first section has the upper and lower case letter on the first row and then 5-6 more rows that are blank for practice. The second section has 4 words per letter per page to practice."
"The font size in this book is just right and really helps to master the letters and clean up what otherwise are squiggly lines and blotches of ink."
"Good old fashioned writing line book for practising letter formation."
"I'm hung up on M. That's the dumbest way to teach a kid how to write big M!!!"
"Looks like a great book but came cut on the bottom!"
Best Children's Grammar Books

Over the last 50 years, Price Stern Sloan has published hundreds and hundreds of Mad Libs stories. Before co-founding Price Stern Sloan with Roger Price (Sloan came later), Stern was a successful television writer. Recently, Stern published A Martian Wouldn't Say That , which compiled weird and wacky memos written by people in the entertainment industry.Currently, Stern serves as a senior vice president of Price Stern Sloan, where he still writes those hilarious Mad Libs .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"What I wish I would have known when I ordered this-- this is not a small stocking-stuffer size."
"Large and diverse!"
"Purchased as a filler gift for my son for Christmas..he has been having fun with it with his friends...If you like mad libs, you'll get more than your fill with this book."
"Bought this for my god son who just turned 7."
"Gave this book of Mad Libs to my twin nephews for their 8th birthday."
"Bought this for my 9 year old granddaughter who loves mad libs."
"He loved this and played it when we were on a long car ride."
"This is a HUGE book!"
Best Children's Composition & Creative Writing Books

"Yes" and "No" questions; fill-in-the-blanks; images to complete, and simple writing activities, My Book About Me, By ME, Myself is an ideal gift for elementary school children and one that will become a cherished keepsake for parents. It's a simple idea, but with a surprising amount of educational value--getting children to name their home country, to recognize and draw in the color of their own eyes, learn their telephone number and address, to name favorite clothes, foods, and colors, and more. Eastman of Are You My Mother and the mainstream Seuss of Cat in the Hat and Thidwick: The Big-Hearted Moose .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We've collected every single Seuss children's book, but there are three books in particular that we've now ordered four copies of, because they can be personalized by the grandkids to make them truly "their own"! This is somewhat along the lines of a baby book you'd receive as a baby shower gift, with pages where your child can trace his hand and foot, etc, but there's oh so much more in the way of fun facts for him/her to fill in to help them remember "where their head was at" at that age, with a little help from Dr. Seuss and many bright, colorful illustrations!"
"I purchased 3 of these this year to give to my oldest grand-children for Christmas."
"I bought this book years ago for my son and now my daughter wants one."
"Bought one for each of my kiddos for the holidays, I had the same book 30 years ago."
"I can't wait to compare what he writes to what I wrote!"
"My hubby had one of these as a child."
"Item is printed upside down in relation to cover and back."
"The whole thing is printed upside down."
Best Children's Vocabulary & Spelling Books

Packed with amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. The gigantic format is totally appropriate for this book about the huge, powerful, rushing trains that transport people and freight by steam, diesel, and electricity on rails around the world. In each case, there are captions and small chunks of information about size, weight, stations, tracks, speed, mileage, maintenance, etc., with special focus on the roles of human drivers and computers. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO® books.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is an oversized book but looked great and the school kids I donated the books to loved it."
"The little man LOVES this book!"
"Awesome book for my little trainiac."
"Wonderful big pictures of trains."
"Pros: - Oversized, high-gloss pages with big, detailed pictures. - Appropriately detailed captions/descriptions; probably at a 6th grade reading level but easily paraphrased for younger kids. - Nice coverage of types of trains: vintage vs. modern, specialty vs. general purpose."
"Was a gift and was liked."
"But I would only recommend it to another "train loving tot" as its really for older kids, young adults or even adults."
"Beautiful pictures."