Category: Children’s Author Trivia Questions

Surprise! Next week we are thrilled to have an author of over thirty children’s books stop by for an interview. Take a look at the brief biography below and see if you can guess who will be coming.

This writer grew up on a farm in Michigan, which she says led to her interest in animals and nature. She graduated from college with a dual degree in English and Spanish, thinking that she would teach. Taking a home-study course on how to write children’s books made her realize that she wanted to write instead. After working as an editor for a children’s magazine, and an editor/writer for the coloring and activity books division of Golden Books, she began writing nonfiction books about animals and plants. More recently, her fiction has been published, with two popular books from Sylvan Dell Publishing, and another new title releasing this month from Star Bright Books.

Can you guess who is coming to visit? Leave us a comment if you have an idea.

Edit: Answer was posted.

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?

Edit: The answers are now posted.

Will you be lucky for Volume 13?

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?

Edit: The answers are now posted.

Can you guess who these children’s book authors/illustrators are?

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.

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.

The answers are now posted.