Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 26, 2022

  This British writer was a sickly child, often confined to his nursery, where he imagined swashbuckling tales of pirates and treasure. Many of his poems in A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885, have become classics. This is Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and poems such as "I have a little shadow who goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see," and "How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing ever a child can do."

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 19, 2022

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 19, 2022--Her mother gave her unlimited crayons, lots of time to draw, and no art lessons. This author/illustrator, born in Massachusetts in 1949, created richly detailed picture books often based on folktales, such as the Ukranian tale, The Mitten. This is Jan Brett. She says she was a shy child who had trouble saying what she meant, but "happily, when it came time to draw, everything came out right."

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 12, 2022

    This beloved children's poet from Chicago worked as a cartoonist for Playboy and won a Grammy in 1970 for the country song "Boy Named Sue." He once said he didn't believe in happy endings. His own ending came in Key West, Florida where he died of a heart attack in 1999. This was Shel Silverstein, whose poems are collected in Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and Falling Up.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 5, 2022

 For years, this author had the idea for a story about a friend of her mother's. When her mother developed Alzheimer's, the author decided it was time to preserve a memory for her mom and write the book about a mail-order bride and two children. The 1985 book won the Newbery Medal and is sometimes called the great American children's novel of the '80's. The writer died this week at the age of 84. The author is Patricia MacLachlan, and her book is Sarah, Plain and Tall.