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A Bob Book Journal
I have decided to try writing my journal entries by hand, for now, because I like the idea of including some illustrations to supplement my text. Below is a picture of my first entry. I find it interesting to use an online blog format to present what is a very simplistic page in person, and I think the intersections of these mediums will be generative.
A quote from the journal:
"Will you play with me? No, I'm reading. Why are you reading? Shh, one more chapter. Okay...has it been a chapter? Shh, you should get your books. No, I cant. Did you try? Yes, I tried. Try again. Now."
This quote is a scene as I remember it playing out in my childhood with my older sister. She insisted that I could learn to read on my own--and that she would only want to associate with me if I did. She thought that I was much too old at 4 to rely on others for reading stories or street signs or labels in the grocery store. As it turned out, I really did only need the final push. I sat for at least an hour with my Bob Books, which only presented limited letters at a time, learning to read. I could read the first set of books by the time my sister thought to ask me how I had fared.