Her First Classic
1811: “Sense and Sensibility”
Who is Jane Austen
What is Harry Potter?
She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”
Who is Beverly Cleary?
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
What is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins?
In 1976, Publishers Weekly initiated a best seller list for these
What are paperbacks?
1818: "Frankenstein"
Who is Mary Shelley?
This series about sparkly vampires is a cult classic
What is Twilight?
Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure
What is The Magic Treehouse?
“The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.”
What is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this was Tom Snout’s occupation tho you may not give a “dam”.
What is tinker?
1920: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
Who is Agatha Christie?
This movie-turned-franchise about dragons was originally a book series.
What is How to Train Your Dragon?
Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell
Who is Clifford?
“’And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!’”
What is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak?
King of Scotland at the start of Macbeth
Who is Duncan?
1969: "The Edible Woman"
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This adaptation was so bad that the author of the book released a letter he had written to the producers complaining about how bad it was
What is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief?
This novel from 1877 "led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare"
What is Black Beauty?
"Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"
What is Through the Looking-Glass (Alice in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll?
Of Lady Macbeth’s 165 words in her sleepwalking scene, all but 20 have this number of syllables
What is one?
1857: "The Professor"
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
This German novel by Michael Ende was adapted into its first (and most famous) film in 1984
What is The NeverEnding Story?
This is when children's literature first began gaining popularity
What are the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
What is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?
This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia and the ensuing Russian resistance
What is War and Peace?