Can you name the authors of these children's books?

Title	Author
Charlotte's Web
Where the Wild Things Are
The Giving Tree
Goodnight 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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Children's Books Authors Quiz

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	Booger:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 16:20 GMT		14 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 16:21 GMT		11 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 16:24 GMT		-1 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 16:41 GMT		2 points
	hang on whats wrong with just 'hodgson burnett'? answer that if you would, sporcle

	POLLUX:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 16:44 GMT		0 points
	@jon, I agree, I just think that maybe the distinction is big enough to merit separate quizzes.

	Lindsay:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 16:57 GMT		0 points
	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 17:20 GMT		10 points
	The Phantom Tollbooth never gets any respect :( kicks rock

	Lilybert:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 18:11 GMT		1 point
	No Anne of Green Gables, baaah

	cka93094:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:07 GMT		2 points
	Wow this was pretty hard! The Babysitters Club should totally be there!

	ntnon:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:14 GMT		2 points
	...another good quiz idea. :o)

	MisterMarioMan:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:39 GMT		-1 points
	"Theodore Giesel" should be an acceptable answer for "The Cat in the Hat". That is Dr. Seuss' real name.

	debbie:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:50 GMT		4 points
	Super-fun! Post more children's author quizzes!

	springmom:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:28 GMT		3 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 21st, 2008 at 23:30 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 00:23 GMT		6 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 00:33 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 01:48 GMT		1 point
	Sad, no A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh

	wyckedredhead:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 02:44 GMT		4 points
	Excellent quiz; brought back a lot of happy memories. BTW, if you've never read some of these books, it's never too late. :)

	tom-tom:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 16:38 GMT		14 points
	to quote mitch hedberg. "any book is a children's book if the kid could read."

	ensiform:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 01:52 GMT		2 points
	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.

	harrypawter:	Mar 26th, 2009 at 21:31 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 03:36 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 19:29 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 15:54 GMT		5 points
	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 00:20 GMT		0 points
	great quiz, however i haven't even heard of some of these books!

	awesomegerbzy:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 14:06 GMT		0 points
	It should be Gertrude Chandler Warner, not Gertrude Warner - that's hoe she's credited in ther books.

	meggiethegoose:	May 2nd, 2010 at 03:33 GMT		1 point
	Got 13. I read many of these when I was a kid but I guess I didn't pay attention to the author till I was a bit older.

	amethyst_cbc:	Oct 31st, 2010 at 01:02 GMT		2 points
	as a technicality, j.k. rowling didn't write tales of beedle the bard... beedle the bard did. and hermione granger translated it from ancient runes. :) i really liked this quiz!

	Jeffhabfan:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 22:12 GMT		1 point
	@gamezo, I live in Canada and I remember reading "The Famous Five" as a young child and enjoying those books very much. Of course, my small-town library had many books popular in Europe and not-so-much in North America. On another note, this quiz brings back many fond memories for me. I'm feeling a little nostalgic now.

	Kern159:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 12:30 GMT		1 point
	@amethyst: Think again. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Beedle_the_Bard