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Can you name the Authors of these Children's Books? Enter a author (last names acceptable) in the box below Correctly named authors will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Ben You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3675 TV Shows (U.S.) 2879 Broadway Opening Lines 2817 You Do Know Jack 1240 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1162 Same Last Name 1017 And more...
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Title	Author
Charlotte's Web
Where the Wild Things Are
The Giving Tree
Good Night Moon
The Polar Express
The Cat In The Hat
The Mitten
A Wrinkle in Time
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
Corduroy
The Velveteen Rabbit
Harold and the Purple Crayon

Title	Author
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Maniac Magee
The Secret Garden
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Boxcar Children
Series of Unfortunate Events
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Superfudge
Ramona the Pest
Artemis Fowl
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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	Booger:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:20 GMT	11 points
	Great quiz idea. Fun quiz. If I can make one suggestion without being beaten up for pointing out an excluded author, I think the Winnie the Pooh author should be included.

	Jon:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:21 GMT	8 points
	Pollux, I think your definition of "children's books" is too narrow. "Everybody Poops" isn't really comparable to "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe" either, except in that they're both children's books. Children of different ages read different things while still remaining "children."

	chambers:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:24 GMT	0 points
	i should have got far more than 6 i read more than 6 of those books clever what you did with jk rowling caught me out...

	chambers:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:41 GMT	1 point
	hang on whats wrong with just 'hodgson burnett'? answer that if you would, sporcle

	POLLUX:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:44 GMT	2 points
	@jon, I agree, I just think that maybe the distinction is big enough to merit separate quizzes.

	Lindsay:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:57 GMT	1 point
	Awesome quiz! Couple of suggestions for a sequel: The Babysitters Club and Goosebumps (both childhood favorites of mine). Loved the quiz, brought back good memories!

	Antithesys:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:20 GMT	6 points
	The Phantom Tollbooth never gets any respect :( kicks rock

	Lilybert:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:11 GMT	0 points
	No Anne of Green Gables, baaah

	cangel:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 23:07 GMT	3 points
	Wow this was pretty hard! The Babysitters Club should totally be there!

	ntnon:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 23:14 GMT	3 points
	...another good quiz idea. :o)

	MisterMarioMan:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 00:39 GMT	4 points
	"Theodore Giesel" should be an acceptable answer for "The Cat in the Hat". That is Dr. Seuss' real name.

	debbie:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 01:50 GMT	5 points
	Super-fun! Post more children's author quizzes!

	springmom:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 02:28 GMT	4 points
	Why all the down arrows for the comments above. Not very sporting....especially when their comments weren't exactly negative - some were very positive, with a few suggestions. Maybe it's time to get rid of the arrows. (Now watch me get lots of negative points for this one!) :)

	MissInformed:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 03:30 GMT	5 points
	Thank you ever so much for including "A Wrinkle in Time" a childhood favourite of mine that not many seem to have heard of!

	magister:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:23 GMT	2 points
	@MisterMarioMan: Yeah, I was about to put Seuss, and then decided to try Giesel. When it didn't work, I tried "Geisel" and realized I couldn't spell the poor guy's name.

	Jaspers:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 04:33 GMT	4 points
	Argh, I've read so many of these and remember so few. I'll have to study before the sequel comes out.

	Arrgh:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 05:48 GMT	-1 points
	Sad, no A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh

Title	Author
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Maniac Magee
The Secret Garden
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Boxcar Children
Series of Unfortunate Events
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Superfudge
Ramona the Pest
Artemis Fowl
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

	tom-tom:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 20:38 GMT	8 points
	to quote mitch hedberg. "any book is a children's book if the kid could read."

	ensiform:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 05:52 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. Love the blend of very well known and amazingly obscure. I'm an elementary teacher and even though I've read most of these books many, many times, I couldn't come up with the Chance of Meatball author to save my life.

	madmonkey:	Mar 27th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	0 points
	wow, i've read nearly all of those books yet I could only come up with 5!

	America:	Apr 7th, 2009 at 07:36 GMT	1 point
	I remember the very hungry caterpillar from when I was but a wee lad, though I could never have come up with the author's name. It was a nice stroll down memory lane regardless.

	lalalala:	May 23rd, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	1 point
	It's Gertrude Chandler Warner, not just Gertrude Warner. Cost me some time typing in the name, then paring down to just the last name.

	gamezo:	Jun 13th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	1 point
	No Enid Blyton though :( Is she just popular in England? She's not too old fashioned, there's older stuff on there than that.

	sccrsquashgrl20:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT	1 point
	great quiz, however i haven't even heard of some of these books!

	awesomegerbzy:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	1 point
	It should be Gertrude Chandler Warner, not Gertrude Warner - that's hoe she's credited in ther books.