As I began bullet journaling, I bought the Dingbats A5+ Wildlife Brown Bear and Purple Hippo notebooks. They suit my needs perfectly for writing with roller ball pens and adding stamped images. The smooth paper is great to write on. The dots are placed just right to keep my lines of writing or ruled lines straight, and aren’t too dark. The cover has a great texture and color. The loop keeps my pen handy. The place marker keeps me in the right spot. The belt keeps the pages together so they don’t get messed up during travel. And there is a pocket in the back that I use to hold a couple of key documents along with a six-inch metal ruler and a tiny French curve for drawing boxes and other shapes. The Dingbat Wildlife notebook is just what I was after for keeping track of my life. Thanks, Dingbat!

The quality is superb. It feels and look luxurious and the size is perfect. This doesn’t speak to the quality in any way (this thing is a beauty), but for my intended use I did have one hiccup. I journal with my Dingbats notebook and am insistent on using fountain pens for journaling. It does work, but the writing is significantly lightened, and seems to almost thin out. The paper is advertised as being thicker, and is, by a lot! When trying to use fountain pens it seemed almost waxy. This is apparently designed with mixed media in mind. Given that, the coating makes sense. With normal pens, that was not problematic. I tried several different inks and pens (Beiluner with Diamine Writer’s Blood was the most successful, just in case you were wondering) and ended up with the same result, as far as fountain pens. Again, my normal pens worked perfect on it - so it most certainly can be used for writing. If it weren’t for my weird insistence on fountain pens, this would be great for that purpose. I had bought 2 because I am Dingbats obsessed - and just look at this thing! - and am sad that it won’t work for it’s intended purpose. They will find use. I’m giving one to my daughter (she uses many different things for art, so it will be perfect for her). She absolutely loves it - I know this because I can’t keep a present a secret to save my life, and I have already shown it to her. I love the earth journals (and every other thing they have), so I will just stick with those for journaling.

This is my third notebook from dingbats and second in the wildlife series. They’re all great quality.

This notebook is a work of art! Then when I opened it up, the tactile touch took it to another level. There's heft and weight that makes it feel substantial. Every time I pick it up, I am reminded how gorgeous this notebook is. Thank you for making this product!

This is my second notebook from here and when I’m ready for my next one I’ll keep ordering from dingbats. I also asked a product question and got an answer super quick by email, so their customer service is top notch.

Love these journals. I bought a medium sized one for each of my kids to help with organization, and one for myself. Good quality paper, does't bleed, doesn't fall apart.

Dingbats* A5+ Wildlife Green Deer Notebook

Dingbats* A5+ Wildlife Grey Elephant Notebook

These make great books for Autographs, Memories, Notes. Great Size and Perfect Paper...

Great notebook, nice paper. Love the pocket in the back. Nice to keep for myself and nice to gift to a friend.

I recently ordered a journal through dingbats, but it got snatched off my porch. When I contacted Dingbats I was hoping for at least a bit off on the replacement but they covered it 100% which was super cool. As for the journal itself, the paper is nice and thick (I think its about a 32lb) with an eye-soothing, off-white crème color. Its well constructed and the cover is is gorgeous, I'm a sucker for simple designs like this. Will buy again.

I am really loving everything about Dingbats notebooks & the wolf notebook is no exception. It is a beautiful color in person!

Kangaroo is excellent notebook,I like it very much, the paper is just what I look for writing on with my fountain pens. I was pleasantly surprised, and I bought another one, this time a Reporter Elephant !!!

I love the textured cover and heavy foutian pen friendly paper. I've purchased smaller dingbat note pads in the past for note taking but this larger size feels like I need to fill it with art. I can fill both sides of a page without worry or page warping.

Dingbats* Earth Sky Blue Great Barrier Reef Journal - Dotted (A5+ 6.3 x 8.5in)