Author: Becky J Radtke
Publisher: Dover Publications
Rating: WORTHY!
DISCLOSURE: Unlike the majority of reviews in this blog, I've neither bought this book nor borrowed it from the library. This is a "galley" copy ebook, supplied by Net Galley. I'm not receiving (nor will I expect to receive or accept) remuneration for this review. The chance to read a new novel is reward aplenty!
All About Marvelous Me is a delightful drawing and writing journal aimed at getting your kids, well, drawing and writing - and doing it in an appropriate place rather than on your fridge or your couch! How can you not love that?! It’s a life journal where you can record your information from birth (I guess your folks will need to help with that…), through school, and for recalling adventures, such as a trip to the city, a trip to the country, or a vacation.
There are pages for pretty much everything, from school lunches, to best friends, to favorite sports, to career choices, to wish fulfillment (and what you can do to make those wishes come true), to what you dream, what your hobbies are, what you would do if you were your favorite animal, what you would do if you were invisible, and so on.
Clearly someone has a wild and comprehensive imagination and someone with a name like Becky J Radtke is quite clearly a suitable candidate. I mean that name is awesome. I don’t see the need for the 'J' in the middle, not with a name like that with no less than three consonants together in an almost impossible assault on pronunciation, but that certainly doesn’t take anything away from it, so it’s hardly surprising that someone with such a name would create such a book!
Once I saw sports, I started wondering where arts and media were, but these were not neglected. There were pages for books, TV, movies, and music. I would have liked to have seen one with art, but that's pretty much the only page which was missing as far as I could see. There's a time-travel page, a time capsule page, a super powers (I wish I had) page, a summer break planning page, a circus page, and on, and on to 64 pages of fun and coloring.
I recommend this for a great journal, scrapbook, and photo-album.