When I Was Your Age - Original Stories about Growing up (Hardcover, 1st ed)

When you become an adult, what will you remember of your life as a child? Whether of school and friends, family and home, or of the times spent alone, your memories of childhood will also ways be a oart of you.

When children grow up to be writers, their memories becomes part of their work as well. In this book ten award-winning writers tells stories drawn from their own childhood. Funny, heartbreaking, or both at once, their stories are full of feelings familiar to every child. Set in the past, they reveal how the experience of being a child changes through time, and how much it stays the same.

In addition to their stories, the authors have contributed notes about why they chose a particular memory to write about and what in their lives led them to become writers. In this way the extraordinary stories of "Wehn I Was Your Age" bear witness to the origins of a writer's art--as well as honor the courage, tenderness, anf fragility of children.