Make your own books

For a Christmas gift this year, I took pictures I had on my phone of my grandson and some of our field trips together, and created a photo book at the CVS website.  It cost me about $12.  I will do this more often for my grandbabies.

In my first book, I included photos of my grandson that I took when we went to the Children's Museum and the park and the pet store.  I wrote sentences to go with the photos using words from the Dolch Word List.  I chose the first grade list because he is not yet five.  This is my first beginner "I Can Read" book.  It is also a great book for my grandson to share at his Montessori school.

My next book will be about Sharks.  I live at the beach.  I can take pics of sharks with local fishermen, at Moody Gardens Aquarium, etc.  Again, I will use the Dolch Word List to make it a readable for my grandson.  I will ask my son and daughter-in-law to send me any photos they may have to match my theme and include in the book.

My grandson recently went to the Houston zoo.  Another book to be made, new vocabulary. 

My daughter is expecting her first child, a little girl, in May.  She will have her own series of books too. 

Although my first books are nonfiction and will include some how to books like hand sewing and cooking, I will do some adventure fiction books --short stories, starring my grandbabies.  Who knows, I may even try some poetry books.  All illustrations/photos in the books will be of my grandchildren.  All sentences will come from the Dolch Word List!  I only wish I could sing!!

If you are really good at this, create u-tube videos to go along with your books or music if that is also a talent you have.