How to say "hello"
Being Prepared
Do your best
Teddy Bearon's Fantastic Four
Words to Spend
Tiny tools!
Reset with a Rinse
The Golden Chain
Tiny but Mighty
How not to do it
Good friends
On Heavy Backpacks
Pluck & Courage
Helping Others
On Directions
Love wins.
Breathing & Deep Sighs
Tools that Help & Harm
Who is in control?
Broken is not shattered.
An Interesting Day
Grace Signs
These notebooks were made to be free PDFs (Portable Document Formats) that you are most welcome to download and print at home or at your local library. You can copy and trace the ideas on your own paper if a printer isn’t handy.
Backpacker tip:
Fold the pages in half to make your own notebook like Mousey always carries in his backpack. As the author of “Mousey’s Backpack,” she finds it helpful to write down or draw out what she plans to say or do before she does it… especially if she’s feeling especially nervous about a big plan or idea.
“thought snacks”
These notebooks have ideas that are meant to be “thought snacks” or otherwise thought of as tiny nuggets of wisdom Mousey likes to remember that his mentors have shared with him. These are things we can all ponder and turn into “food for thought.”
Aren’t words delicious?
More Backpacker tips for your handy notebooks…
Literary devices - analogies and metaphors (even like “Mousey’s Backpack” can be used to describe ideas or feelings that seem too big to just write plainly. Here are some examples of these devices:
…AND SO MANY MORE… read about other literary devices on Grammarly’s website.
Napkin drawings - Never underestimate the power of a quick sketch to help you describe a hard-to-describe thought.
Allegories, metaphors, and analogies, oh my! - Comparing something real that you feel to something that isn’t real helps us describe the big feelings deep inside our chest (some may say our hearts). Did you know… “Mousey’s Backpack” is a metaphor for lots of big ideas for the author of this website you are reading right now?