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

I got this to help me write my mother's story. I need to find it and finish reading it. Ha. Thanks for selling it!

Great gift for an aspiring writer!

AWESOME!

My sons Chris and Logan read this book and really enjoyed it.Logan’s Review: I really liked this book. Some of the stories were really funny. The stories were entertaining and kept my attention so I was able to finish reading in just a couple hours. My favorite story was Marla Frazee’s where she was talking about John always dropping stuff. In Dan Santat’s story, I liked when he was talking about how even though he couldn’t draw very well, he never gave up. That teaches you to keep trying no matter what. I thought it was awesome that Jarrett J. Krosoczka finished his story when he was in the third grade at age 8.I like the pictures that were included of each author when they were little and the drawings and things that they did. It was really cool to see all of those.Chris’ Review: I really enjoyed looking at all of the pictures that the authors drew when they were little. That was pretty neat and some of the pictures were really unique. The different stories were pretty funny. My favorite one was by Yuyi Morales.Everyone’s story was so different and interesting so I never got bored while reading this book. It was entertaining.

If you need a little hope and beauty and inspiration in your life right now, this is a gorgeous collection of childhood stories and drawings by an absolutely amazing array of kid lit authors and illustrators. (Kwame Alexander! Alex Gino! Cynthia Leitich Smith! EVERYBODY.) A particularly great book for any young people who love to write or draw.

What an amazing compilation of stories and illustrations by some of today's best kidlit people! I loved hearing about their 'why' for writing and also how it wasn't perfect that first time. So many children think they need to be perfect and successful on their first attempt at anything, and this book shows that it does take time. Our Story Begins will make an excellent addition to any classroom or school library and readers of all ages will enjoy it!