Doodle Journeys: A Fill-In Journal for Everyday Explorers

by Dawn DeVries Sokol

Travel for kids often means sitting in a plane, train, or car with an iPad on their laps—head down, headphones on, watching a movie or playing a mind-numbing game. In Doodle Journeys , an interactive guidebook, Dawn creates prompts that inspire children to pick up their head and look outside the window. They are challenged to imagine where they are going, what they might see. They are also dared to envision worlds that don’t exist.

The book will offer suggestions of marking tools (showing a TSA-approved artist kit), ways to adhere photos, and tips for how to document with doodles. Young explorers will use prompts on pages overflowing with colorful, vibrant backgrounds to encourage them to note and document what’s around them. Throughout the book are travel-inspired doodles and quotes.

160 pages, Hardcover

Published April 17, 2018

About the author

Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author and designer of 12 books on doodling and art journaling, The Planner Book, The Postcard Project,Art to Start Doodling, Doodle Zen, A World of Artist Journal Pages, Year of the Doodle, The Doodle Circle, and Art Doodle Love. She has also illustrated and written a series of 3 board books (Pet Palooza™, Gibbs Smith) for children. Sokol teaches her methods and techniques through her blog (www.dawndsokol.com) and other online venues, such as Creativebug.com. Her artwork has been shown in galleries from Tempe, AZ, to Tokyo, Japan. She has been published in numerous mixed-media magazines and art books. In her Tempe studio—a mess of inks, paints, papers, and journals—she creates in hopes of inspiring others to find their creative voice.