The end of year gift a teacher actually keeps, because a child made it. Thirty two hardcover pages of prompts, blanks and drawing space, all of it finished in the handwriting of the kid who sat in the room all year.

Every spread gives the child something concrete to answer. A pink schoolhouse with a bluebird on the roof and a squirrel on the facing sign asks for a favorite activity done inside and a favorite one done outside. A pink classroom crowded with books, a globe and an alarm clock opens with I can tell you put a lot of thought into making our classroom just right, then hands over a clipboard to list the things in it worth liking. A yellow school bus admits that not every day has been easy, offers six faces to pick from, grumpy, worried, tired, shy, confused and one left blank, and asks how the teacher made it better. A blue spread of scissors, a brush and a crayon is for the favorite time the two of them spent together, with a spiral notebook to draw what they did. Another spread reads you've shown me that I can CREATE all kinds of things and asks for the child's favorite creative activity and why. Another asks for the biggest number the child can write, and turns it into how many of something they wish they could give. One page is simply a hand to trace. A striped rainbow and a zebra sit under thank you for caring so much for me, with a cloud left blank for the kind of teacher ever.

Hardcover, 32 pages, 7.25 inches wide by 8.06 inches high, published by Compendium in January 2022. Printed in China with soy inks on FSC Mix paper from responsible sources, license FSC C020056. Two age guides exist for it, and neither is hidden here: Compendium's own page puts the prompts at ages 6 and up, while the distributor trade record for the same ISBN reads age 7 and up, grade 2 and up. Made for teacher appreciation week, the last day of term, or a retirement.

The same set of prompts is written for a parent in two companion volumes on this shelf: Mom, I Made You a Book for a mother and Dad, I Made You a Book for a father. A younger child who needs something shorter should take Why You're So Amazing, Grandpa, which is done in about twenty minutes.