Books Make Me Happy: My First Reading Log

My mother in law gave this to my son in his stocking this past Christmas. I have been blessed with an avid reader who is 5 years old. But he isn’t into handwriting or writing out assignments. {I know most of that is his age} But I wanted to start early in teaching him that journaling and writing out your thoughts from books can be both exciting and rewarding. Since working through the first few pages of this book, he requests we do “book reports” after each book he reads. This is such a great tool to use early on to get your young readers excited about reading, journaling, and starting out doing book reports. It’s 64 pages and is recommended for ages 4-8 years old.

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Judy Pelikan is the author of the bestselling Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild, as well as numerous other illustrated gift books such asThe Heart’s Journey and The Music of Wild Birds. She lives in the north country of New Hampshire.

“Instill a lifelong love of reading in children. Created by Judy Pelikan, Books Make Me Happy is the perfect gift for a beginning reader, an interactive journal that encourages reading. It begins where classroom reading logs end—title, author, illustrator—and offers prompts that knit the bond between story and reader more deeply, such as “My favorite part of the book was…” and “I will recommend this book to a friend because…” There are fill-ins where kids can list their favorite books, draw scenes from a story, and write about the pleasures they get from reading. Throughout are full-color embroidered illustrations based on real children’s drawings about their love of books. Also included are five pages of stickered bookplates that kids can customize and use to personalize their own books.

For children, Books Make Me Happy is an invaluable tool to inspire first-time readers to become lifelong readers. For parents, it’s both a keepsake and a rare window into the mind of their child at a particularly interesting time.”