scribbler

noun, Cdn., a small soft-covered booklet for writing in, a student’s notebook (COD, 2)

“We had these scribblers that had a line sort of like halfway through the lines, for the small letters… Like the small letters would only come halfway on the line, and the tall letters would go all the way up. Yeah, you had to fill in that scribbler during the year.”

“My first day of school and Tom was in grade eight, and I had this scribbler, and he had one the very same as mine, and of course I got to school, and he had this scribbler, and I thought he had mine. So that always stuck in my mind that … ’cause then they used to have the pictures on the books, you know, what they called scribblers.”

“Yeah, yeah, we used to call them ‘scribblers’.”
“Now they’re ‘notebooks’.”