Monster Journal Inspired by: The Monsters Book of Monsters

Monster Journal 

Inspired by: 

The Monsters Book

of

Monsters

A long time ago it was only the wealthy that could read and write. Anything to do with books was very valuable; paper, ink and the information that was within the pages.  Books were protected and passed down through families.

Journals kept by family members were also valued by their descendants.  Much can be learned from a journal about that person and about what life was like in the world at the time the journal was kept.  Our family has a few journals that were kept by our ancestors and they are wonderful to read.  Reading them has put many things in their proper prospective for me.

As parents we have tried to encourage our children to keep a journal as well.  All of our kids enjoy this to one extent or another, except one. “Spiderman Jr.” draws pictures in his. “Little Fish” draws pictures and writes down things that are important to her. “Future Author” has filled a number of journals. As her nickname suggests she writes not just for historical purposes but for fun. She is unique in our family in her extreme interest in writing.

 As parents we except that our children are all very different from each other and their differences are a good thing. However, there are some things that we encourage our kids to do even if they don’t like doing them and journal keeping is one of them.

Our son “Soccer Boy” could care less about writing in any form. Whether it is for fun or for school he would rather not.  He is also extremely interested in reading. We have a hard time keeping him in new to him books.

One of the series that he loves to read is the Harry Potter series. He will read and reread and reread the Harry Potter series.  Which I think is fabulous because it’s a fantastic series.

So in an attempt to encourage him to keep a journal we decided that I should make him a Monsters book of Monsters as a journal.  I tried to make it as accurate as possible because even though he loves the movies he points out any time the movies do not match the book.  I didn’t want him to get annoyed when looking at his journal since annoyance is the opposite feeling we were trying to create for him.

He does like it:)

I recorded my attempt to create this journal for him in hopes that if anyone else wanted to create a Monsters Book of Monsters maybe this would help them with ideas and help them avoid any mistakes I might make.

Here is the video