Sam’s (A.)D. Kidlit Trivia Top 10 Hit Music Countdown

Hello, Gang, and welcome back to Casey Kidlit’s Top 5 Hit Music Countdown
Here’s the all-time Kidlit Hit Music Countdown. Your job is to know the connection between each song and kidlit. Numbers 1 & 10 are easy and obvious and are worth zero points. The others are worth 10 points each, except Number 8 which is [...]

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Iota

This is ( to me anyway) one of the toughest ever, so today’s first question will be worth an unprecedented 12 points!!!!
Scene: Flying over Hollywood, we zoom into a meeting room at a top studio just in time to hear movie history be made:
Movie Big Shot: This new kid’s book is smokin’ hot! But the title’s got to [...]

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Wikimoment

I finally made it to Wikipedia!
Not an entry about me, but I’ve shown up in someone else’s entry. It’s the entry on kidlit author Ellen MacGregor.
Later writers who indicated that [Ellen MacGregor's character] had been either an influence or a favorite include such authors as Harry Turtledove[4], Susan Page Davis[5][6], and Sam Riddleburger[7].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_MacGregor
For 10 points, what [...]

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Bargain

Here’s a miracle for you.
I was at Once Upon a Child looking through the kid’s books and I found an edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that wasn’t published in the U.S. How it got to be in a Once Upon a Child in SW Virginia, I can’t say.
What makes it interesting, of course, are the [...]

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Droplet

For 10 points: Two of the three greatest mid-grade novels* — The Westing Game and Lizard Music — take place near the same body of water. What is it?
Answer
For 10,000 Agama Dollars: Superchallenge: In Lizard Music, the name has been changed slightly to what?
*Actually, if you’re willing to count Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars [...]

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Hubbub

In the Gene Zion/Margaret Bloy Graham masterpiece, “The Meanest Squirrel I ever Met,” who is the meanest squirrel I ever met?
answer
Superchallenge: Who is “I?”
(Note: On the back cover of my copy of this fine book, the name of the main character, or “I,” is given incorrectly. That’s a pretty big mistake, folks.)

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Nugget

I’m going to start something new today and we’ll just have to see how well I can keep it going…
For 10 points: It took two Kidlitters to bring “101 Dalmations” to the screen. Dodie Smith, of course, wrote the book. But which Kidlit author/illustrator wrote the script?
Answer
Superchallenge: Name Smith’s sequel AND Disney’s sequel. (And never [...]