Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids school stories written to be read aloud

written to be read aloud

It’s a strange word — something that happens to other kids

her babysitter reveals an astonishing secret - one that has Lulu crossing her fingers that her parents will go on vacation all the time

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Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids school stories written to be read aloudEdited by Elissa Brent Weissman paperback 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 Mothers Dayand perfected through draft after discarded draft. For others, it was a teacher, a