When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
by Amy Ehrlich (Editor)
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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. 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 show more 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 fragility of children. show lessTags
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I highly recommend reading these stories; maybe you'll find yourself represented. Next will be to read other works from these authors.
My rating is only based on Everything Will Be Okay by James Howe. Although this was short, it provided an in dept look at James Howe. The reader was able to see how he felt about his family growing up and his feelings for life.
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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 show more Canfield Fisher Award for her novel Joyride, which was also chosen Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- All-Ball - Mary Pope Osborne; The Great Rat Hunt - Laurence Yep; Everything Will Be Okay - James Howe; Why I Never Ran Away From Home - Katherine Paterson; Reverend Abbott and Those Bloodshot Eyes - Walter Dean Myers; Muffin - Susan Cooper (show all 10); Taking A Dare - Nicholasa Mohr; Flying - Reeve Lindbergh; Scout's Honor - Avi; Blue - Francesca Lia Block
- Original publication date
- 1996
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- 279
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- Reviews
- 2
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- (3.78)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
