This Massachusetts author has written over 400 books and won numerous awards. Her subjects range from dinosaurs to dragons to a toad in space, to a little girl looking for owls with her father in the book Owl Moon. This is Jane Yolen, born in 1939 and still writing and submitting.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for November 15, 2022
This writer is most famous as an illustrator for other authors' books, such as the Little House series, Bedtime for Frances, and Charlotte's Web. He wrote and illustrated The Rabbits' Wedding in 1958, controversial in Alabama because it featured a white rabbit and a black rabbit marrying. This us Garth Williams, born in New York City on April 16, 1912, the day the Titanic sank. He died in 1996.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for November 1, 2022
This author's first book is widely accepted as the first contemporary Young Adult novel, and she wrote it when she was a junior in high school. Her main character, Pony Boy, aims to "stay gold." This is S.E. (Susan Eloise) Hinton, and the book is The Outsiders.
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