TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weissman,Elissa Brent
TI  - Our story begins: your favorite authors and illustrators share fun, inspiring, and occasionally ridiculous things they wrote and drew as kids 
SN  - 9781481472098 
AV  - PS508.C5 O97 2017
U1  - 810.8/09282 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
KW  - Children's writings, American
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - writing
KW  - UOI
KW  - authors
KW  - memoir
N1  - Ages 8-12
N2  - 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?
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