Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids big plots but without another option

but without another option

Clay McLeod Chapman

With a honking pet goose sidekick

Written by Lemony Snicket  |  Illustrated by Matt Forsythe

Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids big plots but without another optionEdited 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