What Can I Do?:
My Journal

By Merilee Barton Clark

1. My mother gave me a book with empty pages inside it. I’m going to do a picture book about me. Mom calls it a journal.

2. After I draw a picture of me, I’m going to draw pictures of everyone in my family, even our dog, Scruffy. I also want to draw pictures of things that I like.

3. I can’t write yet, so Mother is going to write down important things that happen to me.

4. My picture book will help me remember what I was doing and thinking when I was four years old. Someday when I’m a mother, I can share my journal with my children.

Illustrated by Beverly Glazier