Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for January 3, 2023

 When she first came to the US from Denmark at 4 years old, this author hated learning the English language.  She earned degrees in education and psychology and taught first grade for many years, and went on to write some of the first books for young readers in the 1950's for her students and her young daughter. Maurice Sendak illustrated her stories about a bear cub and his mother. The author is Else Homelund Minarik and her first book in 1957 was Little Bear.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for December 20, 2022

 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.

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.

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.