About Doodle Club
How a three-year-old nephew's drawings inspired create a book
It all started on a perfectly ordinary family Sunday. My nephew was three at the time. He sat at the table, with a very serious face, his tongue between his teeth, and drew “mom, dad, himself, and a dinosaur.” When he ran out of paper, he switched to old bills and napkins. By evening, the entire floor of the apartment was covered with his “creations”: colorful crosswords, green people, and endless rainbows.
“It’s a shame to throw it away, but where to put it all?” my sister sighed, gathering another pile of drawings. At that moment, an idea occurred to me: what if we didn’t just keep all this in a box, but put it in a real book? With a blank page, written with the year, date and age. So that in 10 years I could flip through it and remember what it was like when I was three.
I made the first book just as a gift. My sister cried. Then her friends wanted books like this with their children's drawings. Later, friends of friends. It turned out that I hit the nail on the head: everyone wants to save their children's drawings, but most of the time they end up in drawers or boxes, or at best, in sleeves.
That's how a whole project was born from a simple gift from an uncle. Now we help parents (and uncles and grandmothers) all over the country preserve their childhood memories in books. Because children's drawings are not just paper. They are memory. Alive, real, priceless.