Today let’s look at two authors who disguised their real names in order to be published.
31. This extremely prolific author covered the fact she had so many books published by using the pen names Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Kaintuck Brown and Timothy Hay. Do you know her real name?
32. The next author was said to have disguised her gender by using the initials P.L. It turns out, however, she was born in Australia under one name, and when she moved to England, she assumed another. A wildly popular Disney movie is named for the main character of her children’s books, but she was not at all happy with how it turned out and refused to have Americans associated with any further adaptations. Any ideas who she might be?
Are you ready to find out the answers? I think they will surprise you.
29. In last week’s trivia, we found out that Lizbeth Zwerger received the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1990. So we have a straightforward question for today:
Who won the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal for 2010?
British author David Almond won the award for lifetime achievement in children’s literature in 2010. His best known book is probably his first work for young adults, Skellig. It has been adapted as a play, opera and made into a movie. All of his young adult books are complex, and suitable for adults as well.
Fans of his young adult books might not be aware of his darling fantasy children’s picture book, Kate, the Cat and the Moon.
30. This is an interesting one: Who burned his own manuscript before the book was published, after he had been working on it for over 20 years?
According to Jim Trelease, Wilson Rawls was so embarrassed at the spelling and grammar errors in his book Where the Red Fern Grows that he burned it. After he got married, his wife encouraged him to rewrite it. He did it in three weeks! What an amazing story.
29. In last week’s trivia, we found out that Lizbeth Zwerger received the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1990. So we have a straightforward question for today:
Who won the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal for 2010?
30. This is an interesting one: Who burned his own manuscript before the book was published, after he had been working on it for over 20 years?
It’s time to reveal the answers to last week’s trivia questions.
27. Which famous author/illustrator has a children’s picture book art museum named after him? This man was working as an art director of an advertising agency when a children’s author asked him to illustrate a book. It was so well received he began writing his own brightly-illustrated and innovative books.
The book I alluded to in the question was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? written by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle.
Probably every family has at least one favorite Eric Carle book, out of the over 70 he has created. Here are some of ours:
28. This multiple award-winning illustrator was born in Vienna. She does not write her books, but illustrates classics such as The Little Mermaid and The Wizard of Oz.
Lisbeth Zwerger just had an exhibit at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. I am sorry to say I hadn’t heard of her before seeing her art on the museum website. According to the website, Zwerger received the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1990, which they say is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for children’s literature.
As stated by this interview, her teachers did not encourage Zwerger to become an illustrator. Her mother’s did strongly support her, however, helping find a publisher for her first book.
The link to her name has some examples of her works, or look for these:
