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Name These Children's Authors Trivia Quiz
With homage to Minch's quiz called "Authors' Initials." I give you a children's author's first two (or three) names. You type in the writer's surname. For example, if the clue is "Joanne Kathleen," you type "Rowling."
A multiple-choice quiz
by robynraymer.
Estimated time: 5 mins.
A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin, and company. Also a gifted children's poet.
2. Elwyn Brooks
Answer: White
E.B. White, author of "Charlotte's Web," "Stuart Little," and more. Also a wonderful essayist for "The New Yorker" magazine.
3. Pamela Lyndon
Answer: Travers
P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, Michael and Jane Banks, and their world. In the books, Mary Poppins was much more "tart" than Julie Andrews portrayed her. She wasn't really a kind person at all!
4. John Ronald Reuel
Answer: Tolkien
Creator of the classic series that begins with "The Hobbit." If he were alive today, I wonder what J.R.R. Tolkien would think of the movies adapted from his works.
5. Clive Staples
Answer: Lewis
C.S. Lewis, author of the fanciful, perhaps religious children's series that begins with "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." He wrote some fabulous science fiction books for adults, too, and some wonderful essays on Christianity.
6. Hans Augusto
Answer: Rey
H.A. Rey, author of the classic "Curious George" books.
7. Lucy Maud
Answer: Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery, author of "Anne and Green Gables" and its many sequels. These lovely books take place on Canada's Prince Edward Island, where my grandma, a Ferguson, grew up. Her family used to ice-skate on a vast frozen bay there.
8. James Matthew
Answer: Barrie
A Scot, J.M. Barrie was of course the author of "Peter Pan."
9. Here's a harder one: Susan Eloise
Answer: Hinton
S.E. Hinton wrote "The Outsiders" and other well-known young adult novels.
10. Elaine Loeb
Answer: Konigsburg
E.L. Konigsburg wrote "The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." E.M. Forster was an English novelist (for adults) who wrote "Howard's End" and many other great books. Louis Sachar wrote the YA novel "Holes." R.L. Stine writes what are, in my opinion, badly-written thrillers for kids (the "Goosebumps" series).
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