Journal Sparks: Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking

Aspiring journalers who are having trouble getting started will find a trove of writing and drawing prompts in this encouraging guide. Appropriately enough, Neuburger brings a scrapbooked, journal-in-progress aesthetic to the book’s pages: doodles, “taped-in” sidebars, and other artwork accompanies such suggestions as jotting down snippets of overheard conversation, collecting and tracing objects from nature, and writing an “I Am” list poem filled with words “that make sense to you—places you’ve been, arguments you’ve had, sneaker colors, street names.” Detachable pages featuring bright patterns and designs are included for “Imperfect Paper Quilting” and other projects. Neuburger provide graceful, encouraging instruction, giving readers the inspiration and go-ahead to forge their own creative paths. Ages 10–up. Agent: Kate McKean, Howard Morhaim Literary. (Mar.)