With the best elements of KID PRESIDENTS, KID ATHLETES and KID ARTISTS colourful illustrations, kid-relatable subjects, and real stories of childhood conflict, comedy, and triumph KID AUTHORS tells true tales from the childhoods of a wide range of the world s most beloved authors before they were famous. Did you know: Sam Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) loved to hold watermelon-seed-spitting contests, play hooky, and borrow boats to go fishing and digging for turtle eggs with his best friend Tom, of course! Zora Neale Hurston first learned to walk when a hungry wild hog wandered into her house for some of her mother s cornbread and young Zora had to toddle her way to safety.
- ISBN10 1594749876
- ISBN13 9781594749872
- Publish Date 10 October 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Quirk Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781594749872