Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories [Paperback]

Angie Pedersen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2004

Encouraging children to explore what is unique and special about themselves, Growing Up Me is a guide designed for parents, mentors and educators to use when helping children create a scrapbook that showcases their extraordinary young lives. Each chapter in Growing Up Me is divided into a role that is common to a child's life, such as family, school, friendship, day-dreams and spirituality. After defining the role and explaining why it is important, Pedersen includes prompts to aid in journaling and lists ideas for photos, memorabillia and quotations that would help each child illustrate each particular role in his or her life. The final chapters provide journaling prompts and exercises that inspire children to look to the future and envision and research the possiblities for what they would like to become. Growing Up Me encourages children to document their dreams, providing their own roadmap to the future. Also a guide for crafters to use when creating scrapbook pages about the children in their lives, the book is illustrated with examples from Pedersen and her children, as well as 37 other children and their parents, who submitted a total of 71 of the book's scrapbook page layouts.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Angie Pedersen is the author of The Book of Me, uniquely showing scrapbookers how to recognise and record their own life's work. Over 2,000 Book of Me-inspired scrapbook pages have been uploaded to the web by scrapbookers around the world. Angie is also an editor and designer of the award-winning web site magazine, www OneScrappySite.com. She is a professional scrapbooking instructor and teaches at conventions and in stores throughout the USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: EFG (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930500157
• ISBN-13: 978-1930500150
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #682,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angie Pedersen started scrapbooking in 1997. Her first page proudly featured photos cut into several imaginative shapes, as well as several decorative edges. Her vastly improved work has since appeared in eight nationally-recognized magazines, such as Scrapbook Answers, Better Homes & Gardens Scrapbooks ETC, Craftrends, and Memory Makers.

Pedersen is the best-selling author of The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Yourself, Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories, and The Book of US: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Relationships. Angie is also the creator and editor of two websites, ScrapYourStories.com and OneScrappySite.com.

She lives in Kansas City with her husband and two children. Once she gets rich and famous, she'll hire an assistant, a maid, and a masseuse, but until then, she does her own cooking, dishes, and endless sibling refereeing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome for CHILDHOOD albums, February 1, 2006

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Wanda "cajuncropper" (Lee's Summit, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories (Paperback)

This book has ideas for use with children in documenting their lives as they view it as well as for the adult who is backing up and documenting their own. I am always amazed at this author's ability to take it to the next step in my own thinking for scrapbooking. This book does not have as many PHENOMENAL layouts as you find in her BOOK OF US, but it is created by children, who generally are not the artistic creators like you find in magazines or other idea books. Instead, she has hosted a place to see where your own children can go with layouts and gives ideas for the scrapbooker trying to recapture their own childhood.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I use this book in MY Scrapbook classes for kids!, February 1, 2006

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D. Fields (Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories (Paperback)

This book is not intended to be a book full of awesome ideas and techniques, but a book that helps CHILDREN make scrapbooks of their lives. I use this book in my ever popular KROPPIN' KIDS classes and the participants (kids) are always inspired by knowing that many of the layouts are done by other children their age. I would reccomend anyone who teaches children, scrapbooking or otherwise, to use the ideas in this book. A great way to empower our kids!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, March 18, 2008

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T. Dalton "Jingles" (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories (Paperback)

I love this book and Angie's other books as well. She does a great job of providing inspiration to scrap and journal your way through creating a book about your growing up years. I would not say it's a great book to get layout ideas for, but I don't think that's what her purpose is. You can find layout ideas anywhere, but it's difficult to start from the beginning and create a book about your life. Angie helps you do this in an organized way, and some of her journaling prompts have helped me to recall long-forgotten memories from my past. A lot of fun!