Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 25, 2023

 This author began her most famous book for children in 1909, while she was creating a garden in her new Long Island home. The novel didn't make a great impact at first, but she lived long enough to see it bloom into a treasured story. "The happiest thing in the world is to feel that, after all, one's work was worthy of the doing," she said. She died in 1924. This is Frances Hodgson Burnett and her most famous book is The Secret Garden.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 18, 2023

 This author, born in Brooklyn in 1940, was a gifted singer as a child and talented potter and photographer as an adult, but he found his greatest success with his poems for children. He sent poems with illustrations to an editor at Macmillan, who ditched the drawings but loved the verse. He has more than 30 books to his credit, "poems for children who thought they hated poetry." His characters include the Gloopy Gloppers and Baloney Belly Bill. This is Jack Prelutsky.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for July 11, 2023

 This Canadian author, born in 1874, began submitting her writing to magazines at age 11, and in 1908 she published her first novel, set on Prince Edward Island. Her main character voiced criticism of the way girls, orphans and redheads were treated, and she greatly valued imagination. The author is Lucy Maud Montgomery and the first in a series of seven Anne books is Anne of Green Gables.

Kidlit Trivia for June 27, 2023

 This 81-year old writer and grandfather of 8 is best known for his song lyrics but in 2019 he published a picture book about a  grandfather taking his grandkids on wild adventures with a magic compass. The title of the book is the name that the writer's grandchildren call him in real life. The book is "Hey, Grandude!" and the author is Paul McCartney.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 13, 2023

 This Brooklyn-born writer began as an editor, and one of the more successful books she pushed to publication was Caps For Sale. Her own book, written in 1947, was banned from the New York Public Library until 1970, because the powerful librarian there hated it and felt children should be reading classic fairy tales. The author wrote about bunnies but enjoyed hunting rabbits and had affairs with men and women. This is Margaret Wise Brown and her best known book is Goodnight, Moon.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 6, 2023

 An 11-year-old girl (who dresses like a boy) practices for a career in espionage by observing people on her "spy route" and writing her about them in her notebook. The New York Times said the 1964 novel introduced a "new realism" into children's literature, and it's been banned from some school libraries because the main character "sets a bad example." The lesbian author came from a wealthy, disfunctional Southern family and died at 46 of a brain aneurism. This is Louise Fitzhugh and her most famous book is "Harriet the Spy."

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for May 30, 2023

 Born in a small Yorkshire village in 1940, this author-illustrator grew up watching his dad paint every day after returning from the coal mines. He fulfilled his father's dream by attending art school in London. The editor of Oxford University Press loved his paintings and encouraged him to illustrate children's books. His bright colors were expensive to reproduce so it was decided he should illustrate classics with wide appeal. His first was an alphabet book, followed by The Hare and the Tortoise, The Miller, the Boy and the Donkey and other fables.This is Brian Wildsmith.