When I Was Your Age, Volume One Original Stories about Growing Up

Name: When I Was Your Age, Volume One Original Stories about Growing Up
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ISBN: 9780763610340

ISBN-10: 0763610348

ISBN-13: 9780763610340

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Authors: Amy Ehrlich, Candlewick Press Staff

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Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages! "Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. The authors have also contributed notes about why they chose particular memories to write about and what in their lives led them to be writers. In this way, the extraordinary stories in WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE bear witness to the origins of a writer’s art—and honor the courage, tenderness, and…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Amy Ehrlich has had a long and distinguished career in children's books, both as an author and an editor. Her books include Rachel, The Story of Rachel Carson and the retelling of many fairy tales like The Wild Swans, Cinderella, Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, Rapunzel and A Treasury of Princess Stories. Ehrlich is also a winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for her novel Joyride, which was also chosen Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade.