Everyone’s story begins somewhere.

Compiled by award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman, Our Story Begins presents some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators as their quirky, smart, vulnerable, youthful selves, revealing young talent, the storytellers they would someday become, and the creativity they inspire today in kids everywhere.

Your story is beginning too. Where will it go?

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