Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids school stories Lily lives with her girl

Lily lives with her girl

Miss Grimm

written to be read aloud

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

Holidays should be a time for fun and a chance to catch up with friends

Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids school stories Lily lives with her girlEdited 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