Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers.

Did you know that Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain loved to skip school and make mischief (with his best friend Tom, of course!)? That a young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula-or as he called it, "a spider as big as a dragon"? Or that toddler Zora Neale Hurston took her first steps when a wild hog entered ...