The purpose of this project is to give students all over the world a safe place on the web to publish stories about animals and their interaction with other living things. We hope that this site will inspire and encourage authorship among students of all ages as well as a love of reading. We offer several interactive topics for students... such as animal diaries (humorous or serious animal adventures written by students from the animal's point of view), animal cartoons, animal illustrations or photos that students wish to share, travel buddy stories ("animals" who travel the world and have many adventures to tell), becoming a co-author by being a part of a progressive animal story which changes according to the school/ town/ or country that adds the next chapter, a chance to chat or email your favorite author of children's stories, and even a place to create animal greeting cards to send to friends.

Our project encourages creativity, diversity, and above all creative expression. We will support your students' authorships in any way we can, however, we will not publish anything that contains foul language or anything of a suggestive nature.
We believe in using the Internet positively and safely, therefore we will not be publishing any last names of student authors or give out any student personal information. We also have a safety page which we encourage you and your students to read. Click here to see a list of schools who already joined our project.

If you are interested in joining Animal Diaries please fill in the following registration form and click submit. That is all there is to it! When you submit the online form, then we are able to keep you informed by our newsletter. So, let's give the animals of the world a voice... with Animal Diaries!

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