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

Weissman, Elissa Brent; Alexander, Kwame; Angleberger, Tom; Appelt, Kathi; Bryan, Ashley; Federle, Tim; Fleming, Candace; Frazee, Marla; Gall, Chris; Gino, Alex; Grabenstein, Chris; Korman, Gordon; Krosoczka, Jarrett J.; Lai, Thanhha; Lerangis, Peter; Levine, Gail Carson; Lin, Grace; Morales, Yuyi; Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds; Palacio, R. J.; Park, Linda Sue; Santat, Dan; Selznick, Brian; Smith, Cynthia Leitich; Williams-Garcia, Rita; Rohmann, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481472097 ISBN 13: 9781481472098

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018

Synopsis

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?

About this title

About the Author

Elissa Brent Weissman is the author of The Short Seller, Nerd Camp, Nerd Camp 2.0, Standing for Socks, The Trouble with Mark Hopper, and the editor of Our Story Begins. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her at EBWeissman.com.

Other contributors include Kwame Alexander, Tom Angleberger, Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle, Candace Fleming, Marla Frazee, Chris Gall, Alex Gino, Chris Grabenstein, Gordon Korman, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Thanhhà Lai, Peter Lerangis, Gail Carson Levine, Grace Lin, Yuyi Morales, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Eric Rohmann, Dan Santat, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Rita Williams-Garcia.

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Our Story Begins

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1481472097
• ISBN 13: 9781481472098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208