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Authors of Children's Books

Name the authors of these books for kids and young adults.
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Last updated: January 4, 2014
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First submittedMarch 5, 2011
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Book or Series
Author
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Harry Potter series
J.K. Rowling
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Rick Riordan
Book or Series
Author
Goosebumps series
R. L. Stine
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Nancy Drew series
Carolyn Keene
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Narnia series
C.S. Lewis
Superfudge
Judy Blume
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
The Hardy Boys
Franklin W. Dixon
Ramona the Pest
Beverly Cleary
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Watership Down
Richard Adams
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Level 82
Feb 2, 2014
Where's The Da Vinci Code?

also, just a suggestion, maybe you could accept real names in addition to pen names, like Theodor Geisel for instance.

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Level 82
Feb 2, 2014
or Samuel Clemens
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Level 48
Apr 27, 2014
Hipsters.
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2015
The Da Vinci Code is a children's book?
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Level 51
Mar 17, 2017
Well, seeing as it includes goddess worship and sex rites, obviously yes!

(That was sarcasm, by the way.)

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Level 80
Jul 14, 2016
Or better yet -- expand the quiz to include a column for those that have two names.
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Level 74
Feb 2, 2014
I'm surprised that less than half as many people got Franklin W. Dixon as got Carolyn Keene
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Level 48
Apr 27, 2014
I didn't want to read about boys.
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Level 45
May 28, 2014
Well EVERYONE knows Nancy Drew is far superior... XD
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2023
Nearly a decade late to the argument, but Frank and Joe are superior
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Level 68
Feb 3, 2014
So nice to see a nod for Hatchet--one of the best kids books ever.
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Level 14
Feb 4, 2014
Wow! Only 24% knew that author of the Percy Jackson books? Whaaaat?

Awesome quiz, though!

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Level 48
Apr 27, 2014
It's after my time.
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Level 75
Jan 31, 2015
I bought my grandson the entire set for Christmas. I was trying, trying, trying to remember the author's name on the front of the box but it just wouldn't transfer to my typing fingers.
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Level 83
May 20, 2014
Wow, someone's name is really Lemony Snicket? I thought that was a goofy part of the title.
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Level 45
May 28, 2014
It's his pen name. He does a lot of ridiculous things like saying that A Series of Unfortunate Events really happened, saying he has a sister named Kit who dies, and a brother named Jacques who dies, and it's all ridiculous, and I stopped reading just because of it.
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Level 66
Feb 20, 2023
Why spoil the books?
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Level 83
Dec 5, 2023
Playing with the metatext or paratext of literature is hardly a new or weird thing. Some people find it fun.
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Level 59
Jul 14, 2015
I am not so sure that "Watership Down," "Treasure Island." or "Huckleberry Finn" were written with the "Children/Young Adult" demographic in mind.
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Level 65
Dec 8, 2015
They were in their time.
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Level 93
May 5, 2021
Old school parents were hardcore
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Level 87
Mar 29, 2020
Ought to have included Michael Morpurgo, my kids have treasured his stories.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2021
Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are not real people. The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series were written by groups of ghost writers who invented those pen names.
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Level 88
Jul 17, 2022
Who cares
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Level 64
Dec 18, 2023
For years, I assumed that R.L. Stine was a pseudonym for a group of people, since one writer can't be so prolific. Turns out he is!
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Level 83
Feb 8, 2024
Pretty easy to be prolific when you're a mediocre writer working to a simple formula.