{"product_id":"9781481472104","title":"Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone’s story begins somewhere…\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor Linda Sue Park, it was a trip to the ocean, a brand-new typewriter, and a little creative license.\u003cbr\u003e For Jarrett J. Krosoczka, it was a third grade writing assignment that ignited a creative fire in a kid who liked to draw.\u003cbr\u003e For Kwame Alexander, it was a loving poem composed for Mother’s Day—and perfected through draft after discarded draft.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003estories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYour story is beginning, too. Where will it go?","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172606558448,"sku":"9781481472104","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481472104_p0.jpg?v=1763622351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481472104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}