Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 30, 2023

 Born in a small Yorkshire village in 1940, this author-illustrator grew up watching his dad paint every day after returning from the coal mines. He fulfilled his father's dream by attending art school in London. The editor of Oxford University Press loved his paintings and encouraged him to illustrate children's books. His bright colors were expensive to reproduce so it was decided he should illustrate classics with wide appeal. His first was an alphabet book, followed by The Hare and the Tortoise, The Miller, the Boy and the Donkey and other fables.This is Brian Wildsmith.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 23, 2023

      This English author/illustrator was born in 1812, the last of 21 children. Life was tough for the family, but he amused his siblings and himself with nonsense rhymes and limericks.  He wrote The Owl and the Pussycat, The Scroobious Pip and The Nonsense Alphabet and never sought to moralise to Victorian  children, only to entertain them. Although he never wrote a novel, he was mentioned as a novelist in a song by the Beatles, who admired his wordplay. This is Edward Lear.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 16, 2023

   When he was a child this Canadian author's family took in a pair of owls. As a teen in Saskatoon, he wrote a coulmn about birds for the local newspaper. He studied zooloogy and never finished his degree but continued to be fascinated by nature and became a passionate environmentalist. He wrote a book about his dog Mutt (who had nightmares and needed goggles to ride in the family car) and about the owls his family adopted, but his most famous book, published in 1963, is about wolves and faulty government policy towards them. This is Farley Mowat, and his book is Never Cry Wolf.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 9, 2023

 This singer/songwriter turned her lyrics into a picture book published in 2016. But her biggest contribution to literacy is her donation of more than two million books each month to children around the world. She started her Imagination Library in 1995 to honor her father who couldn't read or write. The writer is Dolly Parton and her book is Coat of Many Colors.