The newest book in the Kid Legends series doesn't disappoint. This book gives childhood details for well-known authors lives. This book includes both current well-known authors, like Jeff Kinney and J.K. Rowling, and others that are more "classic", such as Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain. Hopefully the end matter at final publishing will include a list of titles that each author has written, because there were one or two that I wasn't familiar with, and didn't know what they had even written.

Snapshots into the childhoods of favorite authors. This book made me smile, laugh aloud, and give mental high fives to the authors when relatable stories resonated with my own childhood. This will definitely have a place in my classroom library!

Loved this book! The stories are cute and the chapters are short. It encourages kids to get to know these authors because of the interesting stories.

A collection of mini bios of famous authors as children and their paths to writing. This is part of a wonderful series that's great for middle grades. There are about 15 authors included, from different backgrounds and decades, contemporary ones too. I loved the one about Stan Lee. Fun illustrations and a short section of additional introductions to more writers at the end.

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I've worked in a middle school media center for 2 years and the one thing I have learned is that if a book doesn't capture a student's interest in the first paragraph and maintain it to the next page, that student will not read the book.

What I like about this is the selection of authors. Don't like Tolkien? Okay go on to the next. Maybe by the end a child might want to go back to read about Tolkien. As an adult, this is a very fast read but to a middle schooler, it's a good pace. A child can jump around from story to story without losing any plot points. It's set up like a "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book but is more entertaining. Really a solid effort and I will be recommending this to our book buyer.