Category: Children’s Author Trivia Questions

It’s time for Children’s Author Trivia again.

1. Our first author knew she wanted to be a writer, but postponed her career while teaching. It took being in two serious car accidents in one week to convince her it was time to pursue her dream. Her first book tackled the age-old ritual of dressing for gym class.

One of the consequences of the car accidents was that our author mysteriously developed the ability to write backwards, a skill that she used when autographing her books. Any ideas who she might be?

2. Our second question is more straightforward: Who is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2012-2013?

Edit:  the answers are now posted.

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Our authors today have used pseudonyms, or pen names.

1. Our first author has had several pseudonyms to help separate her adult level books from her young adult books, and also from her books for younger children. One of her favorite young adult characters is John Fell, a teen who solves mysteries. One of the mysteries involves changing places with a prep school student. Another involves ventriloquism. Any idea who the author is, or what any of her pseudonyms are?

2. This author made up a biography to go with his pseudonym, which backfired when the the books she supposedly wrote became popular. He had included some made up titles in the biography and people actually began searching for them. He thought the name he chose was an obvious pseudonym: “Sue Denim.” Do you know who this less-than-serious author might be?

Please leave us a comment if you have an idea.

Edit:  The answers are now posted.

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These two people have nothing in common, except that they live in places where I have lived, too. Let’s jump right in with the trivia questions:

1. Our mystery illustrator has won many awards for her illustrations of incredibly realistic nature in children’s picture books. Her work is so fine, the books she illustrates could easily be used a coffee table art books. She also has illustrated some books with a Southwest theme, and is particularly interested in Native American culture (I actually met her because she lives in the same state as I do, Arizona.) The first book she illustrated was about ten little rabbits. Topics of more recent ones include eggs, seeds and butterflies.

2. Our second author grew up in central New York, (which is also where I grew up). He decided he wanted to become a writer at the tender age of 17, but had to take a number of different jobs before his career really took off. Now he has over 200 books published, most of which are for upper elementary-aged children. He has written one book with his best friend, Jane Yolen, and one about a teacher who is an alien.

Be sure to leave a comment if you have an idea who our mystery illustrators and authors might be.

Edit:  The answers are now posted.

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If you stopped by earlier today, you may have had trouble finding us. Just a little glitch while migrating servers, but we should be good now. Back right in time for Children’s Author Trivia.

Both our mystery authors today started out as artists and both struggled in school.

1. This year marks the centennial of our mystery author’s birth. He started out as an artist/ cartoonist, selling his first cartoon to the New Yorker at 17. Later he combined his drawing with his storytelling ability and published a series of popular children’s books with animal characters such as dinosaurs, seals and hens. Do you know who we are celebrating this year?

2. Our second author also began her career as an artist. Although she could always draw well, she reveals that she didn’t read very well as a child. In fact, she didn’t really take off reading until she was fourteen. After getting a PhD in Art History, she started writing children’s books. She says her troubles with reading did not interfere with her ability to listen to and tell stories. Some of this author/illustrator’s favorite characters are goats. She also wrote a story about how she overcame her fear of thunderstorms by baking a cake. Do you recognize this storytelling artist?

Be sure to leave a comment if you have an idea.

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