A Memory Book — Home, Family and Holidays (Paperback)

This book gives a family an easy way into the stories of home: the kitchen, Sunday lunch, Christmas morning, summer holidays, the pets, the garden, the houses and the birthdays. Every activity has a page to itself in large print, and most pages ask one gentle question with lines to write the answer on, so an afternoon together becomes a keepsake in their own words and handwriting. It is something a screen cannot give – a real book you hold, write in, and hand on.

Who it is for

Older readers, families and carers who want an unhurried way to talk about the past, and people living with dementia sharing the book with someone they love. It works one page at a time, so it suits a care home activity session as well as a quiet visit. The book puts it simply: there are no wrong answers and no right speed.

What is inside

80 activities across eight chapters, one activity to a page:

• The Kitchen, Sunday Lunches, Christmas at Home, Summer Holidays, Family Pets, The Garden, Houses You Lived In, and Birthdays
• 64 reminiscence prompts, eight in each chapter, printed in 18pt type above ruled lines to write on – for example, "Who did the carving, and how did they go about it?"
• 8 easy word searches on 8 x 8 grids, words running across or down only, with solutions at the back
• 8 Look At This pages: a frame for a family photograph and five questions to talk about
• A how-to-use page for whoever is sharing the book

Details

• Pages: 98
• Trim: 8.5 x 11 in (US Letter)
• Binding: Paperback, perfect bound
• Paper: 60# cream, uncoated
• Interior: Premium black and white
• Large print
• Published under our Sovereign Publishing imprint.

Every copy is printed to order for you. Shipping is free on every order, within Australia and internationally. Paperbacks take approximately 3 weeks to arrive. That is an estimate, and it may be longer for remote destinations or during November and December.

Also available as a hardcover.