Wreck This Journal and you will get dirty
Wreck This Journal
by Keri Smith
Perigee Books
2012, 224 pages, 5.5 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches (paperback)
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There was just no way I could walk by this without picking it up, and there was no way I could pick it up without buying it. Oh my goodness. Wreck This Journal is so therapeutic and funny and awesome! It starts out with a great big warning – “During the process of this book you will get dirty” – and lives up to it. Take it in the shower. Tie it to a rope and swing it around over your head. Lick it. Tear it up and tape things in it. At first you don’t really want to mess it up, but once you start, you must wreck the journal. You must.
But the activities aren’t even the best part! There are little goodies hidden in the acknowledgements and copyright information, like the last line of acknowledgements: Dedicated to perfectionists all over the world. Sure, perfectionists, please crumple up a page and play golf with the journal and the crumbled paper. There’s a little note under the library of congress information that says, “Some of the activities in this book may not be appropriate for unsupervised children.” It lives up to it. This is the kind of book that brings people together. I want to share my journal with you. I want other people to draw in the pages and enjoy the destruction with me! Are you in? – Kitty Lusby
