Brown Girl Dreaming Book Journal

This handcrafted journal is created from a 2016 printing of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. The cover art is powerful and restrained, showing a young girl in silhouette against a shifting sky. It feels reflective and hopeful at the same time, setting the tone before a single page is turned. This is a book that already understands listening, memory, and voice, which makes it a natural foundation for a journal.

Written in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming moves through childhood, family, and identity with clarity and care. That rhythm carries beautifully into journal form. It invites slower writing. It welcomes fragments, poems, lists, and memories that surface unexpectedly. This journal feels especially suited for personal reflection, creative writing, or capturing moments that deserve attention rather than speed.

Select chapters from the original book are preserved within the journal, offering gentle pauses and lines that surface like reminders. This piece is meaningful for readers who love poetry, storytelling rooted in lived experience, or journals that feel emotionally grounded. It is a place to hold dreams, observations, and words that are still finding their shape.

SIZE: 8.5” x 6”
1994 Printing | Read Aloud Edition | Newbery Medal Winner

OUR JOURNALS

We search for books that have been discarded and give them new life by turning them into one-of-a-kind journals and notebooks.

• 72+ journal pages
• 24# acid-free paper
• Select sections kept in novels and larger texts
• Sturdy metal coil, allows journal to lay flat
• Handcrafted with love