The Super-Deluxe, Epic Journal of Awesomeness

Awesome! A great way to encourage creativity and play in kids and adults!

This short (64 page) book is filled with things to draw, colour, imagine and do, encouraging creativity and active participation. There are origami type activities, find the differences, suggestions of things to draw, a comic strip to create and lots of other tasks to consider and have a go at that will inspire children - and adults.

This would be a welcome set of activities for journeys and alternative things to do during holidays. It seems strange for it to be called a journal but, apart from that minor quibble, it is an interactive fun book that will easily help give hours of pleasure. The activities are also the sort that can be completed by anyone who can manipulate a pencil or crayon successfully, regardless of their age so everyone in a family could each have their own copy of it and complete to their own satisfaction. I suspect some parents would enjoy saving the completed book as a keepsake, too. Teachers could easily use it as a source of ideas to use with pupils, too.

Thanks to the author, publishers and NetGalley, too, for letting me read an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Looks like a lot of fun for all ages!

Very cute. My daughter (15) and I love to draw and doodle. The format this file came through on my Kindle was really hard to read, but we got the gist. Honestly, I have seen books like this in the book store and it would come down to what kind of paper it's printed on in order for me to buy it as a gift. There's no way we would buy it for the library- people would ruin it.

Really epic (and awesome)!

I liked this book for a kid trying to keep a journal. It has some good ideas in it and I think a tween and younger kids will enjoy keeping this type of journal.

GREAT! Very engaging, very encouraging. So many times, kids are reluctant to write because they don’t know what to write, or they are hung up on spelling or their handwriting. The SDEJA removes much of that by prompting the kids to draw a picture instead of writing something down. The ideas are totally off the wall (“If you had a pet from outer space, draw it below.” Or “What do the monsters under your bed look like?”), while some are tamer (“Draw the view from the cockpit of your airplane.” Or “Which dinosaur represents you the most?”). A very fun book!

This really isn't a library book since it needs to be written in. However, it would be a perfect present for a kid's birthday or as a nice way to keep them occupied on a long car trip. And by "kid", I really mean anyone. Another nice thing about the book is that the price is low enough that it wouldn't be impossible to get a class set and have the kids work on it as a class project. The writing prompts will definitely appeal to kids and they won't be put off the way they are with most writing prompts. In fact, they might just have enough fun that they wouldn't even think of it as writing at all.

Fun book that will fill the time of any kid who is feeling a touch of boredom or looking for something to stretch their creativity muscles. It is filled with fun, funny and great ideas for kids to get into.

If you love to draw and doodle, or express yourself creatively, or just have fun with colors and pens, then this journal is for you.

It is just like any other journal (wreck this journal,... Etc.) but devoted to drawing. The good thing is that you don't have to be a good drawer as long as you can hold a pen you'll enjoy this.

I recommend drawing with a companion, my younger brother and I did it together and compared our drawing and saw how different we think. We finished half of it in two hours, and I do appreciate those two hours of brother-sister bond till this very day! Plus, it showed me the hidden artist in him.

There is a lot of topics and the ideas are vary. My favorite is: draw a song, draw lost items, and draw everything you need on a flash.

This journal is good for children, as I really feel after seeing it at the bookstore it would not really interest anyone older than 12, but it is very different than what the cover looked like. Every day they had some little feature to try. It is really good though to keep a child entertained over the summer, or on a trip.

The good thing about it is that it offers suggestions to do creative things which is good, things like illustrate songs or pictures, it does not however really fit the word journal. I bought two of them for my grandchildren and they liked them a lot and that is the main thing, to enable a child to be creative and come up with something they may not think of doing!

I enjoyed looking at the pages with the grandkids and it isn't over 60 or 70 pages and it was perfect for an over the summer project.

I gave this journal 4****stars for the ideas it had in it for children to have a good time, while learning also.

Seems to be an excellent jump-starter to get your child's creative juices flowing. However, the eVersion appeared disjointed, jumbled, and short--rendering it difficult to gauge effectiveness. A motley collection of short drawing exercises and projects.