Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 25, 2023

 This author began her most famous book for children in 1909, while she was creating a garden in her new Long Island home. The novel didn't make a great impact at first, but she lived long enough to see it bloom into a treasured story. "The happiest thing in the world is to feel that, after all, one's work was worthy of the doing," she said. She died in 1924. This is Frances Hodgson Burnett and her most famous book is The Secret Garden.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 18, 2023

 This author, born in Brooklyn in 1940, was a gifted singer as a child and talented potter and photographer as an adult, but he found his greatest success with his poems for children. He sent poems with illustrations to an editor at Macmillan, who ditched the drawings but loved the verse. He has more than 30 books to his credit, "poems for children who thought they hated poetry." His characters include the Gloopy Gloppers and Baloney Belly Bill. This is Jack Prelutsky.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 11, 2023

 This Canadian author, born in 1874, began submitting her writing to magazines at age 11, and in 1908 she published her first novel, set on Prince Edward Island. Her main character voiced criticism of the way girls, orphans and redheads were treated, and she greatly valued imagination. The author is Lucy Maud Montgomery and the first in a series of seven Anne books is Anne of Green Gables.