Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 31, 2022

 His first book, the self-published "Little Squeegy Bug," launched his writing career when Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned it on her radio program. Eric Carle illustrated this author's "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" book, and Lois Ehlert illustrated his "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." This high school English teacher who wrote books that celebrate rhythm, rhyme and repetition is Bill Martin Jr. 

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 24, 2022

 This Harvard-educated writer/illustrator's books featured wordplay with common expressions in "Chocolate Moose For Dinner" and "The King Who Rained," but he may be remembered more for the roles he played on TV as Officer Muldoon and Herman Munster. This is Fred Gwynne, July 10, 1926-July 2, 1993.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 17, 2022

 Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 17, 2022--This Connecticut author/illustrator is a lifelong animal lover, and his art reflects the rambunctious humor of childhood. His picture books from 1979, 1981 and 1982 featured an energetic Great Dane named Pinkerton, and later books retold classic tales. This is Steven Kellogg.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 10, 2022

 Born in Racine, WI in 1960, this author/illustrator was part of a family with five kids who went to the library every week. He wrote his first picture book in high school. His characters were mostly mice, with names like Owen, Lilly, Sheila Rae and Chrysanthemum, but he won a Caldecott for his book about a kitten. This is Kevin Henkes, and his Caldecott winner is Kitten's First Full Moon.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 3, 2022

 In 1924, when she was 18, she left her family in Australia and moved to England. She worked as a dressmaker, actor, dancer and writer. She said she didn't create her most famous character, but rather the character entered her consciousness and demanded her story be told. The author is P.L. (Pamela Lyndon) Travers, and her bossy subject is Mary Poppins. Her first Mary Poppins book was published in 1934.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 26, 2022

  This British writer was a sickly child, often confined to his nursery, where he imagined swashbuckling tales of pirates and treasure. Many of his poems in A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885, have become classics. This is Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and poems such as "I have a little shadow who goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see," and "How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing ever a child can do."

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 19, 2022

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for April 19, 2022--Her mother gave her unlimited crayons, lots of time to draw, and no art lessons. This author/illustrator, born in Massachusetts in 1949, created richly detailed picture books often based on folktales, such as the Ukranian tale, The Mitten. This is Jan Brett. She says she was a shy child who had trouble saying what she meant, but "happily, when it came time to draw, everything came out right."