Kidlit Trivia for August 30, 2022

 This shy author, born in 1899, wrote from his 18th century farmhouse in Maine. He loved farm life and celebrated the connections bewteen children and animals. He once said, "All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world." And the world loves his stories. This is E.B. White, who srote Stuart Little and my very favorite children's book, Charlotte's Web. 

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for Aug. 23, 2022

 This Polish Jewish author/illustrator, born in Brooklyn in 1928, had a childhood scarred with news of relatives who died in the Holocaust, but he found happiness in his 50 year relationship with his partner, Eugene Glynn. His most famous book told of a boy who tamed monsters and came home safely. This would be Maurice Sendak, and his best known book is Where the Wild Things Are.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 16, 2022

 This author's family moved to Florida when she was a child, and her father was to join them later but never came. Her first book in 2000 (discovered in an agency's slush pile) featured a girl who lost a parent but found a dog in a supermarket. The author is Kate de Camillo and the book is Because of Winn-Dixie.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 9, 2022

 This American author, born August 6, 1917, wrote or illustrated 110 children's books over 60 years. One of her most beloved characters is an older woman who traveled the world and hurt her back dismounting from a camel, and who made the world a more beautiful place by planting flowers. The author is Barbara Cooney, and her National Book Award winning book is Miss Rumphius.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 5, 2022

 This 5 foot 3" Scottish author was born the 7th of 10 children into a poor family in 1860. His most famous book features this quote: "When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." This is James Matthew Barrie, and the book is Peter Pan.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 28, 2022

   This American couple met in art college in Philadelphia and wanted humorous books for their sons to read, so they began to write and illustrate them for the Random House "Beginner Books" series, started by Dr. Seuss. They created an animal family with a bumbling father, wise mother and a brother and sister who sometimes get into trouble. They are Jan and Stan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears series from the 1960's into the '90's. 

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 21, 2022

   Her picture books reflect her childhood in West Virginia, where she had hot biscuits for breakfast and squirrel for dinner. She didn't read children's books until she worked in a library after college. Her first book came out in 1982 when she was 28 and became a Caldecott Honor Book. It is a warm recollection of growing up in Appalachia, "When I Was Young in the Mountains," by Cynthia Rylant.