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Bookmarks for you to download. Print on cardstock, cut, and share.
Here is a slide show of my books. If I’m coming to your school to do an assembly, you can project this while the students are entering the all-purpose room and waiting for the presentation to begin.
Mary Amato's first notebook, started at the age of seven
When I was seven years old, my family and I went on a cross-country car trip, and my mother gave me this notebook and suggested that I write down what I see on the journey. Although I was nervous about writing and afraid that I would make mistakes, I wrote entries and dictated some entries for her to write down. I loved reading it over and over later.
At the age of eight, I received my first “real” diary from Santa Claus. At first I was afraid to write in it because it looked so pretty, but I did write often.
Mary Amatos' diary from ages eight to nine
At the age of ten, my mother died. I didn’t write for a full year. Then, my writing changed. I found a little blank book that a plumbing store was giving away and in it I poured out my emotions. –Mary Amato
Mary Amato's notebook at age eleven