Uploaded August 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Back to school" means the end of summer, the start of homework, new school supplies, and picking out an outfit for the first day. In this video, children's and young adult authors Dan Gutman, Andrea J. Buchanan, Chris Raschka, Patricia MacLachlan, Robert Munsch, Robin Jarvis, Adele Griffin, and Betsy Byars, as well as illustrator Katherine Janus Kahn, recall what "back to school" meant to them as children. "It's the first page of a notebook. You haven't screwed anything up yet, and the world is full of possibilities," says Buchanan.
"Back to school" means the end of summer, the start of homework, new school supplies, and picking out an outfit for the first day. In this video, children's and young adult authors Dan Gutman, Andrea J. Buchanan, Chris Raschka, Patricia MacLachlan, Robert Munsch, Robin Jarvis, Adele Griffin, and Betsy Byars, as well as illustrator Katherine Janus Kahn, recall what "back to school" meant to them as children. "It's the first page of a notebook. You haven't screwed anything up yet, and the world is full of possibilities," says Buchanan.
