Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids big plots “GIGANTOSAURUS

“GIGANTOSAURUS

With a honking pet goose sidekick

Clay McLeod Chapman

and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery

He's going to have to think outside the box

Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids big plots “GIGANTOSAURUSEdited 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