This New Jersey author's first book, published in 1959, was called "The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo" and described being a middle child. Later books dealt with the onset of menstruation, first romance, and bullying an overweight classmate. Her 29 books have been translated into 32 languages and have sold more than 90 million copies, and the American Library Association lists her as one of the authors most frequently banned. She now works with the National Coalition Against Censorship, and her name is Judy Blume.
Monday, December 19, 2022
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for December 13, 2022
Name the author who wrote his 1936 classic on a yellow legal pad in less than an hour. The story was controversial for its pacifist hero--it was banned in Spain and burned in Germany--but it was based on an actual flower-loving bull. The author is Munro Leaf. His friend Robert Lawson did the illustration, and the book's title is The Story of Ferdinand.
Monday, December 5, 2022
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for December 6, 2022
This British Quaker author injured her ankle at 14 and never walked well afterwards, but she did enjoy the family's horse and carriage. Some felt her novel was preachy as it railed against the evils of drink, but her empathy for the horse shone through in her only book, published in 1877, a year before she died. This was Anna Sewell and her book was Black Beauty.
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