Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 24, 2024 This high school drop out wrote one of the most popular early readers ever, but he began his career as a cartoonist with two comic strips, "Tuffy" and "Laugh It Off." When his young daughter needed therapy for a bad hip. he made her a series of drawings of a boy and a dinosaur to take her mind off her treatment. These were the basis for his 1958 early reader, Danny and the Dinosaur, and many credit this book for sparking kids' interest in dinosaurs. His simple drawings complimented the simple text perfectly, and he went on to create other books for kids learning to read, such as Sammy, the Seal, Julius, and Chester, about a carousel horse. This is Syd Hoff, who was born in New York in 1912, and died in Miami at the age of 91.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 11, 2024
This American author, born in 1970, is best known by his pen name. He is also a screenwriter, tv producer, and musician who has played accordian with several bands. His first book for children was rejected several times as being too dark, but he found great success with his series of 13 books, Victorian Gothic in tone, about orphaned siblingsViolet, Klaus and Sunny and the evil Count Olaf, intent on stealing their inheritence. The books have led to a tv series, a movie, and a video game. This is Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 4, 2024
When this author was a child, his mother died and his father disappeared, and he moved from Edinbugh to his grandparents' home in the Berkshire countryside of England, where he fell in love with the creatures there, a rat, a mole, a badger and a toad. As an adult he followed neo-paganism, preferring nature to organized religion. His marriage was unhappy, but his son inspired him to make up stories which led to one of the best loved read-aloud books in the English language. The book is Wind in the Willows, and the author is Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932.