School Years
A single book that holds every school year for one child — a second child gets their own copy. Each grade gets an opening page, the start of the year in their own words, a grid of that year’s favourites, room for the first-day and last-day photographs side by side, and a letter from you at the end. Fill it in by hand, or type the answers and we print them.
Blank is the 74-page book set out below with the questions printed and the answer space empty, ready to write in — straight to checkout, nothing to design.
- Size
- 8.5 × 11 in
- Binding
- Hardcover, photo-wrapped, from $52
- Pages
- 74 as it comes
- Paper
- 80# coated white (about 118 gsm), gloss laminate on the cover. Coated stock: heavier and smoother, best for photographs. Fountain-pen ink sits wetter on it. Choose coil in the builder and it prints on 60# uncoated white (about 90 gsm), matte. Uncoated — the better surface for fountain pens and heavy ink.
- Chapters
- 14 · school grades (pre-k → college)
Will it arrive in time?
Every book is printed after you order, so the wait is printing plus post. Put in a US ZIP and we'll estimate the date — before you build anything.
What each chapter holds
The same 5 pages repeat for every chapter, so the book stays consistent from the first to the last — which is the point of a year-by-year keepsake.
- Page 1Chapter opener
- Teacher or advisor
- School
- Height
- Page 2Starting out
- How the start of this year went
- What you were most looking forward to
- What you were nervous about
- Who you were glad to have with you
- + 3 more
- Page 3Favorites this year
- Best friend
- What you liked learning most
- What you would have skipped if you could
- What you did when the day was done
- + 8 more
- Page 4First day, last day
Room for your photographs.
- Page 5Looking back
- What changed about you this year
- What you were proudest of
- The hardest part, and how you got through it
- What made you laugh hardest this year
- + 2 more
The chapters
Every label is editable, and you can add or remove chapters in the builder.
- Pre-K2026–27
- Kindergarten2027–28
- 1st Grade2028–29
- 2nd Grade2029–30
- 3rd Grade2030–31
- 4th Grade2031–32
- 5th Grade2032–33
- 6th Grade2033–34
- 7th Grade2034–35
- 8th Grade2035–36
- 9th Grade2036–37
- 10th Grade2037–38
- 11th Grade2038–39
- 12th Grade2039–40
Before the chapters
About this book
One page for every school year, from the first to the last. Fill in what you can, when you can — half a page written down beats a whole year remembered wrong.
Before school
Everything that came before the first bell. Written from memory, which is the only place most of it lives.
The first day of all
The morning you started school for the first time.
School Years
Buy it blank to write in by hand, or open it in the builder to see every page as it will print and type the answers in so we print them.