First Words

Paul Mandelbaum

earliest edition we have, 1993 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993 hardcover 528 pages

Most kid write stories. A few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before Stephen King created Carrie, he created Jhonathan, at age nine. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, there was Manuel Citarro, detective in John Updike's hard-boiled mystery, written at fourteen. Before Jurassic Park, there was young Michael Crichton's story about the mysteriously wounded man lying unattended in the street. Editor Paul M...

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First Words edition · 2013 · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 9781565127364
First Words paperback · 2000 · Algonquin Books · 288 pages
First Words audiobook · 1995 · Audio Literature · 9780787104436
First Words hardcover · 1993 · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 528 pages

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