Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories (Paperback)

by Angie Pedersen (Author) "When I started working on my Book of Me scrapbook, my kids, then ages seven and four, asked me when they could start working on..." (more)
Key Phrases: journaling font, patterned paper, letter stickers, Making Memories, Breanne Crawford, James Pedersen (more...)

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Product Description
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, daydreams and spirituality. After defining the role and explaining why it is important, Pedersen includes prompts to aid in journaling and lists ideas for photos, memorabilia 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 possibilities 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.

About the Author
Angie Pedersen is the author of The Book of Me, uniquely showing scrapbookers how to recognize 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.She is a professional scrapbooking instructor and teaches at conventions and in stores throughout the U.S. Angie developed and facilitates Barnes & Noble University's first online class in scrapbooking. She resides in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: EFG (March 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.com Sales Rank: #968,166 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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

By	D. Fields (Maine) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

By	Teresa Dalton "Jingles" (Midwest) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!