When I Was Your Age: Volumes I and II: Original Stories About Growing Up
Description
“Memoirs of adolescence by renowned YA authors. . . . Readers can journey to places where the seeds of imagination and keen powers of observation are planted.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Tell me a story of when you were little” is something children love to ask. Twenty award-winning authors respond in these two extraordinary volumes, now combined in one book. The writers of these stories make it clear that despite the difference between one childhood and another, all children share a complex humanity and a deep capacity for joy.
Praise for When I Was Your Age: Volumes I and II: Original Stories About Growing Up
Ehrlich offers more of a good thing in this second volume of memoirs of adolescence by renowned, contemporary YA authors. Here, readers can journey to their favorite writers' old stomping grounds, places where the seeds of imagination and keen powers of observation are planted . . . these works perceptively and succinctly encapsulate the joys, pains, and quiet moments of realization that are a part of growing up.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Rich and rewarding.
—The New York Times Book Review
From ten prominent writers, short stories--tender, funny, and heartbreaking--that vividly evoke the state of childhood, with all its hopes, dreams, fears, and joys...an excellent anthology.
—Kirkus Reviews
