#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In this picture book by Janell Cannon, a fruit bat ends up in a bird's nest & is adopted by the mama bird Stellaluna |
#8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $2000: "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!" & also this bird, not found in any ornithological books we've encountered the Jubjub |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $200: This mouselike boy has an older brother named George & is friends with a bird named Margalo Stuart Little |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $600: A baby bird hatches alone & asks a dog, a hen & a kitten the title question of this classic book Are You My Mother? |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: 2020's "Malorie" is a sequel to this novel that was the basis for a Netflix movie starring a blindfolded Sandra Bullock Bird Box |
#7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $800: "The Blue Bird" by Madame d'Aulnoy is considered the source of this name used for the prince in "Cinderella" Charming |
#7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A little bird told me that this Kristin Hannah novel is the story of 2 French sisters living through World War II The Nightingale |
#6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $600: Mo Willems is the author of the kids' books about this bird--don't let it drive the bus! the pigeon |
#6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $2000: Books by this popular Japanese novelist include "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" & " 1Q84" Haruki Murakami |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $200: This book says, "I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra" To Kill a Mockingbird |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $400: Larry McMurtry won a Pulitzer for this Western Lonesome Dove |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $800: Maya Angelou dedicated this book to "all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds... and sing their songs" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $1000: Some took flight with this 1970 allegory by Richard Bach; others felt it was bird-brained Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $2,400 (Daily Double): A 1993 raid in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead is chronicled in this book by journalist Mark Bowden Black Hawk Down |
#6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $1200: The Painted
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#6188, aired 2011-07-06 | FOR KIDS $600: In comic books, this kind-hearted bird is often seen with his friend, Wormie Owly |
#5200, aired 2007-03-30 | THE BILL CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) Here in the Clinton Library, I'm with some of the President's favorite books: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "The Poems of Yeats" &, of course, "Living History" by this author Hillary Clinton |
#4555, aired 2004-05-28 | BILL CLINTON'S FAVORITE BOOKS $1200: This first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography flew onto the inventory I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
#3602, aired 2000-04-11 | BOOKS OF 1970 $600: In 1970 Maya Angelou wrote about a "Caged Bird" & he flew up the charts with "Love Story" Erich Segal |
#3557, aired 2000-02-08 | "MM" BOP $300: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" & "Windows 98" Dummies |
#985, aired 1988-12-09 | BOOKS $600: "The Bird Era" isn't about "Sesame Street", it's a history of this basketball team from 1978-88 the Boston Celtics |
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