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Your Birthday Book

A Keepsake Journal
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Your Birthday Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal offers parents a playful, simple way to capture each birthday milestone of their child's life from ages 1 to 18. Unlike traditional baby books, this journal creates an annual ritual featuring fun activities, space to preserve birthday photos and keepsakes, and engaging questions that evolve as the child grows. It serves as a time capsule, blending memories, artwork, and personal reflections into a treasured keepsake.
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This book is ideal for busy parents who want to document their child's growth year by year without the commitment of scrapbooking. It's perfect for those seeking a creative, easy-to-maintain birthday tradition from toddlerhood through adolescence.

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For parents who don't have time for scrapbooking but want to keep track of their child's yearly milestones in a fun and easy way.

Start this at birth, wrap it up at eighteen, fill it out each year in between.

This is not anything like a baby book. It's a birthday book! It was born from the simple idea that birthdays provide the perfect annual opportunity to preserve a sweet moment in time as your child changes from year to year. So it's a multi-layered confectionβ€”annual touchstone, cherished ritual, and eternal keepsake.

This journal provides fun, fast, and casual birthday activities for ages 1-18, as well as space to stick birthday photos and a random picture from each year. It includes amusing and thought-provoking questions to ask your child, and a time-capsule envelope for stashing away odds and ends: artwork, school papers, hand tracings, birthday cards, invitations, and other memorabilia.

From toddler hood to young adulthood to every stage in between, you'll return to the same four activities for each birthday. The question prompts and tone may shift each year, but the essence intentionally remains intact.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780307342300

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Diary or journal

Date Published: 02 October 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Potter Style

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 37.0mm

Width: 252.0mm

Height: 243.0mm

Weight: 743g

Pages: 104

About the Author

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was born in 1965, and graduated from Tufts University. A prolific writer, speaker, film maker, and radio show host, she also contributed to TED Talks and wrote several adult and children's books. She lived in Chicago with her husband and children for several years, and then announced on March 3, 2017, that she was terminally ill with cancer. Her essay for the Modern Love columnin the New York Times, entitled "You May Want to Marry My Husband," went viral online.She died on March 13, 2017.

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