Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 29, 2023

 At age 9, this fightened Ohio boy ventured into his attic and found a typewriter and began his writing journey. One of his early successes was Bananas, a humor magazine for teens, published by Scholastic. Later he drew on his childhood fears and wrote books that were what he called "safe scares," which were gently frightening and enormously popular. This is RL Stine, and his series include Goosebumps, Fear Street and Garbage Pail Kids.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 22, 2023

 

This New Jersey author/illustrator was encouraged by a teacher to pursue his art. He became a graphic designer and married author Ann Jonas. His books often feature transportation (Freight Train, Truck, School Bus) but childhood visits to his grandparents' home in rural Florida inspired Bigmamas and Shortcut. This is Donald Crews.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 15, 2023

   Sometimes compared to P.T. Barnum, this American writer/showman/filmmaker/family man wrote his most famous book in 1900, which has been called "America's first fairytale." Who is this author and...what was Dorothy's last name? L. Frank Baum loved word play, and Dorothy's last name was appropriately Gale.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 8, 2023

    This Long Island author was also an illustrator but she asked an artist who had lived and worked in China to illustrate her 1933 story of a duck who lived in the Yangtze River. She wrote and illustrated a series of books about a Scottie dog name Angus, and she is known for her ability to give her animals personality without losing sight of their natural instincts. She married Swedish artist Karl Larsson and they had one daughter, Hilma.This is Marjorie Flack and her most famous book is The Story of Ping.

Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for August 1, 2023

 Nan, Bert, Flossie and Freddie were the characters in this series which debuted in 1904 and grew to 72 books. Although all the books were credited to "Laura Lee Hope" they were actually written by several different authors through the years, beginning with Edward Stratemeyer. In the 60's the family's maid and gardener's ethnic dialects were removed and the characters were made a little older. This series is The Bobbsey Twins.

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.