November+21,+2007


 * 1) Who won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for Children’s Literature in 2006? (//Margaret Mahy//)
 * 2) This English author was said to have the first real modern writer for children. She is probably best known for the following books: //Five Children and It//, and //The Railway Children//. What is her name? (//E. Nesbitt//)
 * 3) Herge is known for his stories about Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy. Herge is a pen name. Do you know where the name came form and what the author’s real name is? (//first letter of first name and last name: R.G. (pronounced Herge in French); real name: Remi Georges//)


 * 1) This English author recorded her everyday life in journals, using her own secret code-writing. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she smuggled into the house or observed during family holidays. A movie about her life starring Renee Zellwegger was released earlier this year. What is the name of this author? (//Beatrix Potter//)


 * 1) Dick King-Smith is the author of //Babe the Gallant Pig// which was made into the movie //Babe//. Do you know what his profession was before he became a teacher and writer? //(a farmer//)


 * 1) This author is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and been runner-up in the same year, with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Name the author //(E. L. Koningsburg//)


 * 1) This author is the author of more than forty books, most being **[|fantasy]** books for children and adolescents, as well as several adult novels. Probably his most famous contribution to the field of **[|children's] [|fantasy]** is **//[|The Chronicles of Prydain]//**. Name the author. (//Lloyd Chudley Alexander//**)**


 * 1) Author Pictures:


 * 1) **Slide 1: Ursula Le Guin.** This author is regarded as one of the best modern science fiction and fantasy authors, noted for her exemplary style and for her exploration of **[|Taoist], [|anarchist], [|feminist], [|psychological]** and **[|sociological]** themes**.** She wrote //The Earthsea Novels//.


 * 1) **Slide 2: Richard Adams.** This author wrote a famous book that took two years to write and that was rejected by thirteen publishers. When it was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the **[|United Kingdom]** and the **[|United States].** The book is about rabbits.


 * 1) **Slide 3: Naomi Shihab Nye**. A Poet. //19 Varieties of Gazelle//.


 * 1) **Slide 4: Shel Silverstein.** Poet. He died in 1999 and was also known as Uncle Shelby. He claimed he never studied the poetry of others, and therefore developed his own style: laid-back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity and recent slang.


 * 1) **Slide 5: Philip Pullman.** Three words: Compass, knife, Spyglass


 * 1) **Slide 6: Louisa May Alcott.** This author wrote a famous novel that was loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. (Little Women)


 * 1) **Slide 7: Roald Dahl.** Writer of numerous books children and adults. Many of his books are illustrated by Quentin Blake.


 * 1) **Slide 8: Margaret Mahy.** Winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award.


 * 1) **Slide 9: Victor Hugo**. This is a famous French writer whose book about the survival of very poor people was made into a musical and was played all over the world.
 * 2) **Slide 10: Andy Griffiths**. This author has a new book out titled: Just Shocking. (slide 1)
 * 3) **Slide 11: C.S. Lewis**. This author’s initials stand for Clive Staples.
 * 4) **Slide 12: J.K. Rowling**. This author’s has two first names: Joanne and Kathleen.
 * 5) **Slide 13: Jane Yolen**. This author won a Caldecott Medal for Owl Moon, arguably her best book.
 * 6) **Slide 14: E.B. White.** One of this author’s books was made into a film featuring a rather special mouse, another one about a pig and a spider is probably just as famous.


 * 1) **Slide 15: David Almond.** This author was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North-East **[|England]** His first children's novel, [|**Skellig**] (1998), set in Newcastle, won the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award and also the **[|Carnegie Medal].**


 * 1) **Slide 16: Lemony Snicket.** The author Daniel Handler has a much more famous pen name. What is it?


 * 1) **Slide 17: Lois Lowry**. This author has been awarded the [|**Newbery Medal**] twice: first for //[|**Number the Stars**]// in **[|1990],** and again in **[|1994]** for **//[|The Giver]//.**