Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today's foremost children's authors and illustrators--revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.

Everyone's story begins somewhere...

For Linda Sue Park, it was a trip to the ocean, a brand-new typewriter, and a little creative license.
For Jarrett J. Krosoczka, it was a third grade writing assignment that ignited a creative fire in a kid who liked to draw.
For Kwame Alexander, it was a loving poem composed for Mother's Day--and perfected through draft after discarded draft.
For others, it was a teacher, a parent, a beloved book, a word of encouragement. It was trying, and failing, and trying again. It was a love of words, and pictures, and stories.

Your story is beginning, too. Where will it go?

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 07/04/2017
ISBN: 9781481472081
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2017
School Library Journal 05/01/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2017
Booklist 06/01/2017 pg. 82
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2017 pg. 139
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 190147 / Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridi
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4