A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...

With his mother's help, Carlos learns to write his name, as some of his friends can do.

Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.

When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.

After a storm blows some of them away, the letters on the alphabet tree learn from a strange bug to be stronger by forming words, then a caterpillar comes along and tells them that words are not enough; they must say something important.

A boy begrudgingly composes a sometimes-rhyming adventure with his precocious little sister.

"During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals - and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks"--

A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer -- but all his activities revolve around ice cream.

Told entirely through illustrations, Letters to a Prisoner is a wordless story about the power of hope and the written word. In a wordless story, a man who was arrested during a peaceful protest begins to despair, when a bird begins delivering messages of support from the outside.

Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.