Room to Remember

About this book

A life-story journal a grandparent can actually read, and actually write in.

There is one person in your family who remembers everything, and almost nobody has ever sat down and asked them.

Room to Remember asks. It opens with the simplest question, Where were you born?, and goes on through 154 questions in eleven parts: from where they came from, through childhood, love, work and family, to what they most want remembered.

Most memory journals make that harder than it needs to be. The print is too small for the person meant to fill it in. There are four thin lines for eighty years of answer. And every family is assumed to be the same shape. This one is built the other way around.

- Large print: every question set in 20-point type, and nothing in the book below 16 point

- Room to write: almost every question has a page to itself, with wide ruled lines filling the rest

- Every family fits: open family pages, however many children, marriages or chapters there were

- Made to be given: a gift inscription page at the front, and extra ruled "more to say" pages and photo pages at the back

- Big pages, and plenty of them: 243 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches in paperback and 8.25 x 11 inches in hardcover

Give it, and then ask the first question together.

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