Sharing Our Notebooks: Starting Soon!

My New Book!

Welcome!

I'm Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, and in the spirit of creativity and curiosity, I invite notebookers of all types to share their notebooks here. Enjoy your visit, and please let me know if you'd like to share your own pages! xo, a.

This Blog: News

Hi Friends, I have been away from this space for some time, but I will be back beginning September 2021. While I adored being a classroom teacher, I also missed writing and teaching from here. I am no longer in the classroom, but instead you will find me here and at The Poem Farm. If you are interested in sharing your notebook, please just let me know. See you soon! xo, Amy

Writing Chats

Friends, My 72 free and ad-free notebooking videos will remain up for the 2020 - 2021 school year. Please click the image above to learn more. xo, a.

New Book!

I am excited about my new book with illustrator Ryan O'Rourke. It's a friend book to our READ! READ! READ!, and if you'd like to watch the trailer, just click the image above. If you'd like to make a butterfly pencil yourself, Ryan made a template which you can find at bit.ly/ButterflyPencil. xo, Amy

Hi Writers!

I know that some of you are home from school these days, and I hope you will find some new notebooking ideas here. I love keeping a notebook for writing, for drawing, for making a place for ideas and dreams and wishes and facts and feelings. This blog is home to many peeks into others' notebooks, and in each post you will find photos, notebooking-thoughts, and an idea to try. Feel free to poke around, notebook by your side, and explore your own brain and heart. Sometimes we don't know what we really think until we write. If you like writing poetry, feel free to visit my other site, full of poem writing ideas - www.poemfarm.amylv.com xxxx, Amy

Notebook Resources

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My Other Blog

Hundreds of Poems & Lessons

Padlet - Characters Who Write

All are invited to add to this growing padlet of favorite books with notebook keepers or characters who live writerly lives.

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Seeking Notebook Keepers!

Readers - if you or one of your students or friends keeps a notebook and would like to share in this space, please send an e-mail to amy at amylv dot com. I welcome your contributions and will send you the post specs for this blog.

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Notebooking Resources

Two Writing Teachers Notebooks Archive
Writing Territory Maps by Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski
Keeping a Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher
A Peek into Kate Messner's Notebook
First Day of Notebooks at Educate * Empower * Inspire
Introducing Writers Notebooks by Dana Murphy
Artist Celebrates Late Grandfather By Drawing 100,000+ Items in Late Grandfather's tool Shed
10 Things to Know about Anne Frank's THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
10 Famous Authors on the Importance of Keeping a Journal
The Famous and Their Notebooks
Six Famous Notebook Users
The Pocket Notebooks of 20 Famous Men
500 Prompts for Narrative & Personal Writing from THE NY TIMES
Why Startups Love Moleskines
Michelle Haseltine on Importance of the Notebook
Joan Didion's Essay, "On Keeping a Notebook"
Angela Stockman's 20 Day Notebook Challenge
Start a Commonplace Book at Poets.org
Marie Curie's Radioactive Notebook
Famous Diaries at Brain Pickings
Notebook Posts at Two Writing Teachers
One Family's Nature Journals
A Marine's Diary from WW II
Virginia Woolf on Keeping a Diary
Wonderrrgirl's Inspiring School Notebooks
Notebook Stories - All Sorts of Notebooks!
Krulwich's Musings on daVinci's Notebooks & Thinking
Detour - Moleskine Notebooks on Tour
Introducing Writer's Notebooks from Two Writing Teachers
Start with a Scavanger Hunt from Two Writing Teachers
Notebook Ideas from Writing Fix
How to Start a Notebook from readwritethink
Notebook Article by Ralph Fletcher
Writing & Keeping Journals from infed
The Sketchbook Challenge
Morning Earth - An Archive of Artist/Naturalist Journals
Best Q & A from SPILLING INK
Ralph Fletcher's Writing Tips