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.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for Nov. 22, 2022

 This Massachusetts author has written over 400 books and won numerous awards. Her subjects range from dinosaurs to dragons to a toad in space, to a little girl looking for owls with her father in the book Owl Moon. This is Jane Yolen, born in 1939 and still writing and submitting.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for November 15, 2022

 This writer is most famous as an illustrator for other authors' books, such as the Little House series, Bedtime for Frances, and Charlotte's Web. He wrote and illustrated The Rabbits' Wedding in 1958, controversial in Alabama because it featured a white rabbit and a black rabbit marrying. This us Garth Williams, born in New York City on April 16, 1912, the day the Titanic sank. He died in 1996.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for November 1, 2022

 This author's first book is widely accepted as the first contemporary Young Adult novel, and she wrote it when she was a junior in high school. Her main character, Pony Boy, aims to "stay gold." This is S.E. (Susan Eloise) Hinton, and the book is The Outsiders.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for October 18, 2022

 The Jewish husband and wife that created this adventurous character had to cobble together two bicycles to flee Paris and escape the Nazis in 1940.  After 75 miles, sleeping on restaurant floors and in barns, they made it to a train station and then to Portugal, Brazil, and finally the United States. The creators are H. A. and Margaret Rey and their spunky monkey character is Curious George.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for October 4, 2022

  This author/illustrator from Minneapolis had the nickname "Sparky" and was dad to five kids. In 1968, 11 days after Martin Luther King's assassination, a teacher in Los Angeles wrote and asked him to add a black child to his cast of characters, and shortly thereafter, Franklin appeared. This is Charles Schultz, and his canine character is Snoopy.

Pumpkinpalooza--my 2022 Fall Writing Frenzy entry

 

 Fall is my favorite season, and one of my favorite fall events is this writing contest conjured up by Lydia Lukidis, Kaitlyn Sanchez and Alyssa Reynoso Morris. Thanks, ladies!

Pumpkinpalooza (109 words)

    Rhiannon graduated from kindergarten six years ago, but she returned to the classroom every October 1^st. That’s when Ms. Puggle turned her room into Pumpkinpalooza! Dozens of Jack-o-lanterns grinned and grimaced from every bookshelf and table, from every cubby and countertop—but not this October 1^st. Rhiannon learned that Ms. Puggle had strained her back picking pumpkins and wouldn’t be back for weeks. October wouldn’t be the same, for the school or for Ms. Puggle! Rhiannon had an idea and brought it to the principal. She made an announcement to all the classrooms, and later that night, when Ms. Puggle looked out her window, Pumpkinpalooza had come to her!