This elementary school teacher from Michigan used twisted fairy tales to inspire his lessons. This led to writing picture books, such one about the three little pigs from the wolf's point of view, and one about a prince who thinks his life may have been better when he was a frog before he kissed the nagging princess. His 1992 collection of stories incudes Little Red Running Shorts and The Princess and the Bowling Ball. This is the very imaginative Jon Scieszka, born in 1954 and living happily ever after.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for February 13, 2024
Born in Los Angeles in 1998, this African American poet said her earliest stories were "very Anne of Green Gables" until she discovered Toni Morrison in high school, and realized that stories could be about people who looked like her. Her children's book Change Sings is perhaps not as well known as the poem she read at President Biden's inaguration, The Hill We Climb. This is Amanda Gorman.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for February 6, 2024
Three loving companions, a Labrador retriever, an old bull terrier, and a Siamese cat, make their way 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness in this book from 1961. It was never intended to be a story for children by it's Scottish-born author, but remains one of the finest examples of realistic animal fiction in all of children's literature. Based on the author's real-life pets, the story has been translated into 20 languages and made into two different Disney movies. This is The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford.
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