num_pages: 156
description: 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 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 fragility of children.
language: English
title: When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
titlecomplete: When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
genres: Biography, Short Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthologies, Middle Grade, Essays, Childrens, Biography Memoir, Teaching
ratings_count: 193
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature
publisher: Candlewick Press