| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $800: By Feb. 2024 this juvenile journal, the first of almost 20, had spent 778 weeks on the N.Y. Times children's series list Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOOKS BY CHARACTERS $600: In a children's book, Stanley Yelnats &
Zero Holes |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play King Lear |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $300: "Lumpito and the Painter from Spain" tells the story of a dachshund featured in several of this cubist's works Picasso |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $900: Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs inspired the book "Drawing with" this hand-operated tool scissors |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: One children's book title refers to this Mexican master as the artist who painted herself Frida (Kahlo) |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1500: The flags of Puerto Rico & Haiti are on the cover of "Radiant Child", inspired by the early life of this Brooklyn-born artist Basquiat |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $400: In addition to her successful children's books about animals, this author was a committed conservationist (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | QUICK BOOKS $800: His "Midnight's Children" is set in places like Kashmir & Delhi Salman Rushdie |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: This tale about Max & some monsters was later turned into a short opera featuring a libretto by Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eric Carle is perhaps best remembered for this book about a week in the life of a ravenous larva The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Today we might call it phrogging, but in a title by Mary Norton, the tiny Clock family, living beneath a kitchen floor, are these The Borrowers |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree |
| #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 |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: A girl is part of a nontraditional (especially for children's books) family in 1989's "Heather has Two" these Mommies |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $1200: This Harlem poet wrote a children's book called "The First Book of Jazz" (Langston) Hughes |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo a penguin |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water Crayons |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers" Stuart Little |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator Richard Scarry |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage & renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall" The Wind in the Willows |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Ferdinand, who likes to sit & smell the flowers a bull |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Based on a TV show here & abroad:
Peppa a pig |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother a bat |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" a trumpeter swan |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan" a gorilla |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1980s $800: The "Earth's Children" series about Stone Age humans begins with "The Clan of" this creature the Cave Bear |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: Books about this title simian include his visit to an aquarium & him making pancakes Curious George |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This woman wrote the Holocaust-set children's book "Number the Stars" Lois Lowry |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST $400: One of President Obama's favorite children's books is this 1963 classic by Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: The man in the yellow hat takes care of this inquisitive primate Curious George |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A farmer gets exasperating but very legible notes from his livestock in "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that" do this Type |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: The B. stands for Beatrice, a name this Barbara Park kindergartener can't stand Junie B. Jones |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: In a series of kids' books, this Swedish girl lives by herself in Villa Villekulla Pippi Longstocking |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | CHARITABLE CELEBS $200: This country singers's Imagination Library has donated more than 100 million books to children Dolly Parton |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: C.S. Lewis' review of this 1937 work by pal J.R.R. Tolkien said, "Prediction is dangerous but" it "may well prove a classic" The Hobbit |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eudora Welty said this E.B. White book about "friendship on earth, affection and protection" was "just about perfect" Charlotte's Web |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: The N.Y. Times said of this 1947 book, the words & the pictures "combine to lull and reassure when bedtime and darkness come" Goodnight Moon |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Dorothy Parker wrote, "Tonstant weader fwowed up" in her 1928 review of the book "The House at" this place Pooh Corner |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1943 the L.A. Times said this "tale of a little boy from a very little asteroid" was "so big with meaning" The Little Prince |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $800: In 2011 Ransom Riggs led us to an island with a mysterious history in "Miss Peregrine's Home for" these 2-word title folks peculiar children |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.) The Eric Carle Museum displays "The Wolf and the Dog", one of the illustrations in Carle's book "Twelve Tales from" this ancient Greek author of fables Aesop |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" is a chapter in "The Lightning Thief", book 1 about this kid "& the Olympians" Percy Jackson |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Crockett Johnson colored our world with his tale of this boy "and the Purple Crayon" Harold |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Dr. Seuss books with rhyming titles include "Fox in Socks" & this one that also has the line "Dad is sad" Hop on Pop |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: A series of kids' books features this third grader with a rhyming name; her last name also hints at her many emotions Judy Moody |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | AWARD ETYMOLOGY $1600: This 18th century publisher of books & of Lilliputian, a magazine for kids, has his name on a children's book medal John Newbery |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY BOOKS $2000: "Mere Christianity" was a non-fiction testament of faith by this novelist of fantastic children's tales C.S. Lewis |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: "Anne's History" is a chapter in this book, the first in a series about an orphan Anne of Green Gables |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A classic by Munro Leaf begins, "Once up on a time... there was a little bull and his name was" this Ferdinand |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: "The First Four Years" covers the early days of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A selfish boy takes shade & apples, among other things, from this, the title of a Shel Silverstein classic The Giving Tree |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The title character of this book eats through one apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries & 5 oranges The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | AWARD-WINNING BOOKS $400: Named one of the best illustrated children's books of 2017: the story of this artist "and Her Animalitos" Frida Kahlo |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: He needed oil to move his parts, but what the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" really sought was this a heart |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: He's the royal title pachyderm in books by artist & writer Jean de Brunhoff Babar |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: Nana Is the dog who acts like a nanny to the children in this work Peter Pan |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: In this "colorful" book, Harold draws the moon so he can go for a walk in the moonlight Harold and the Purple Crayon |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In a series that began in 1904, Nan & Bert are one set of the title siblings the Bobbsey twins |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Flopsy, Mopsy & Cotton-tail are siblings of this title character; Benjamin Bunny is his cousin Peter Rabbit |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: At birth, this title E.B. White character "could have been sent by first class mail for three cents" Stuart Little |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: This 1957 classic was written to see if its author "could rediscover something about Christmas" that he'd lost How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: "Let the wild rumpus start!" is a line from this favorite Where the Wild Things Are |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The book about her begins, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines" Madeline |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | KNOWN BY THEIR MIDDLE NAMES $2000: Here's the tale of this author & illustrator of children's books: she was given the first name Helen in England in 1866 Beatrix Potter |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $400: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room..." Goodnight Moon |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: "I Am Number" this isn't Brett Favre's memoir but young adult sci fi about the Loric children Four |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: "Goodnight iPad" is a parody of this beloved book Goodnight Moon |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: In a 2000 book, 10-year-old Opal adopts a stray dog whom she names this, after the grocery store where she finds him Winn-Dixie |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: It's the rhyming name of the literal-minded housekeeper in books by Peggy Parish Amelia Bedelia |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: This character's tale is a story of a mouse, a princess, some soup,
and a spool of thread Despereaux |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: This picture book begins, "In a warm and sultry forest, far, far away there once lived a mother fruit bat and her new baby" Stellaluna |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: The first book in the "Guardians of Childhood" series gives the back story of Nicholas St. North, aka this 5-letter name Santa |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: In a picture book by Janell Cannon, Verdi is a yellow one of these who can make a figure 8 & slither up trees a snake |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: In a classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne is adopted by the Cuthberts & comes to live with them on this title farm Green Gables |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Some of what this title character eats: "one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake" & a slice of watermelon The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In this Margery Williams classic, a boy's love helps a stuffed animal become real The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $800: The press called Rev. W. Awdry "the Puff Puff Parson" after the success of his children's books about this train car Thomas The Tank Engine |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Ransom Riggs blends fiction & photography in this Miss' "Home For Peculiar Children" Miss Peregrine |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: In 2011 he had bestsellers with the thriller "Cross Fire" & the kids' book "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life" James Patterson |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: A kid is a kid is a kid in her book for younger readers "The World Is Round" Gertrude Stein |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: She wrote a cheery work for kids titled "The Bed Book", published after her suicide Sylvia Plath |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: No fatwa was issued against this author's children's book "Haroun & the Sea of Stories" (Salman) Rushdie |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: This Romanian absurdist playwright also wrote absurd children's tales like "Story Number 1" Ionesco |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Socks, who is owned by the Brickers in a book by Beverly Cleary a cat |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Olivia, who "Saves the Circus" & "Goes to Venice" a pig |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: Elmer: a patchwork, not a gray, one of these elephant |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Corduroy: a brown one, wearing green overalls a bear |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The title pooch of "Good Dog, Carl" is this breed named for a German place Rottweiler |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | NOW GO WRITE THAT NOVEL ALREADY $800: After years writing children's books, Gregory Maguire published this 1995 novel that revises a kids' classic Wicked |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: She also wrote "Little Town on the Prairie" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: What a good daughter! She dedicated "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." to her mother Judy Blume |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Chris Van Allsburg won a Caldecott Medal for this modern classic about a Christmas train The Polar Express |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Rejected by 26 publishers, this beloved classic by Madeleine L'Engle is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012 A Wrinkle in Time |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In Chapter VIII of this favorite, our heroes take a trip through the deadly poppy field The Wizard of Oz |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | TWINS $400: A series of children's books by Laura Lee Hope featured these 2 sets of fraternal twins: Bert & Nan & Freddie & Flossie the Bobbsey Twins |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | NEIL, EARTHLING $2000: Before writing dark children's books like "Coraline" & "The Graveyard Book", he penned a bio of Duran Duran Neil Gaiman |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Pongo & Missis:
This breed that lives with Mr. & Mrs. Dearly Dalmatians |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Aslan:
This majestic creature in Narnia a lion |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: Stellaluna:
The fruit type of this mammal a bat |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi:
This creature that saves his family a mongoose |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: Mr. Jeremy Fisher:
This critter, living at the edge of a pond in a Beatrix Potter tale a frog |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks Lewis Carroll |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $800: In a classic children's book, a girl lives for years by herself on this title island Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | BOOKS' OTHER TITLES $400: Vonnegut's "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (I'm Michael McKean.) A favorite of mine is this author's "Cat's Cradle", a book named for a children's game but dealing with the end of life on Earth Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: George Strait, Tommy Tune & this children's author of the Ramona Quimby books were honored in 2003 Beverly Cleary |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | O PIONEERS! $2000: Textbooks used by pioneer children included Webster's spelling books & this man's "Eclectic Readers" (William) McGuffey |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | THE DEVIL $1000: "The Screwtape Letters" from a senior devil to an underdevil are by this man better known for children's books C(live) S(taples) Lewis |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $800: A clergyman known as "The Puff-Puff Parson" created this character, the basis of a series of books, DVDs, etc. Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: This "Wizard of Oz" author wrote books for girls under the pen name Mrs. Edith van Dyne L(yman) Frank Baum |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AROUND SWEDEN $400: A sort of museum of children's books, Junibacken re-creates the cottage of this beloved fictional Swedish girl Pippi Longstocking |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | BLONDE AMBITION $400: This mega pop star seen here has also written several children's books including "Yakov and the Seven Thieves" Madonna |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $1000: "Today" this "Inside Edition" & MSNBC host moonlights as a children's author with books like "I Can Fly!" Deborah Norville |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: He's the author & illustrator of such popular books as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" & "The Very Busy Spider" Eric Carle |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Little men & women might enjoy reading her other children's books, including "An Old-Fashioned Girl" Louisa May Alcott |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: 2 of his many books are "The Foot Book" & "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" Dr. Seuss |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: He illustrated Else Minarik's "Little Bear" books as well as his own "Where the Wild Things Are" Maurice Sendak |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: Popular books by this author include "Ramona the Pest" & "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" (Beverly) Cleary |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $2000: "Sagwa", a PBS animated series about a Chinese Siamese cat, is based on one of her children's books Amy Tan |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: "The Saga of Baby Divine" is a 1983 children's book by this "Divine" entertainer Bette Midler |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author Thomas Hardy |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine" Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Twits" is the tale of a perfectly dreadful couple by this author of "James and the Giant Peach" Roald Dahl |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He called his fifth Narnia novel "The Horse and His Boy" C.S. Lewis |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $200: As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: She reviewed books & worked as a play reader before writing her own plays like "The Children's Hour" Lillian Hellman |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | FUN WITH OPERA $800: His children's books "Higglety Pigglety Pop!" & "Where the Wild Things Are" have been turned into operas Maurice Sendak |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: C.S. Lewis chronicled this fantasy world in 7 books, beginning with "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" Narnia |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Stan & Jan Berenstain have written a series of books about a family of these title animals "The Berenstain Bears" |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $200: 4 of the top 10 children's books on the Publishers Weekly list were about this Indian princess Pocahontas |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $500: This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996 P.L. Travers |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: She's famous for her books about Ramona Quimby, as well as "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" Beverly Cleary |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Theodor Geisel, better known by this pseudonym, wrote "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" under the name Theo. LeSieg Dr. Seuss |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Johnny Gruelle created his stories about this pair of dolls to entertain his sickly daughter Marcella Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Moon Lady" was the first children's book by this author of "The Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: When writing children's books like "Amy the Dancing Bear", "Nobody does it better" than this singer Carly Simon |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Author whose most famous books were inspired by the person seen here: Lewis Carroll |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: R.L. Stine has been sending chills up children's spines with this series of books that debuted in 1992 Goosebumps |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This legendary outlaw of Nottinghamshire began appearing in children's books in the 19th century Robin Hood |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Illustrated by his daughter Amy, "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" is this former president's 1st children's book Jimmy Carter |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books C.S. Lewis |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" is Roald Dahl's sequel to this children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | LAURELS $100: An international award for authors & illustrators of children's books is name for this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,700 (Daily Double): "The Last Battle", the last of his Narnia books, won the 1956 Carnegie Medal (C.S.) Lewis |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $100: Hugh Lofting's book about this doctor "and the Secret Lake" was published posthumously in 1948 Doctor Dolittle |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: John Ridd, the hero of this novel, is the son of a man murdered by the Doones Lorna Doone |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $300: Originally published in French in 1931, the 1st book about him was subtitled "Le Petit Elephant" Babar |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: R.L. Bacon wrote about these New Zealand natives in such books as "The Boy and the Taniwha" the Maori |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $500: In the 1956 book "The Enormous Egg", one of these 3-horned dinosaurs is hatched from a hen's egg a Triceratops |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | TWINS $300: Since the early 1900s these Laura Lee Hope twins have been featured in a popular series of children's books the Bobbsey Twins |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 medals for children's books awarded by the American Library Association (1 of) Newbery or Caldecott |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1991 this inquisitive monkey in books by H.A. Rey celebrated his 50th birthday Curious George |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "Little Dorothy and Toto" was one of the books in his "Little Wizard Stories" series Baum |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | THE ENVIRONMENT $100: This undersea explorer's expeditions inspired a series of ecological books for children Jacques Cousteau |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: This bestselling author of "Jewels" & "Fine Things" has also written several children's books Danielle Steel |
| #1967, aired 1993-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best known for her children's novel "A Wrinkle in" this Time |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was first published a few days after this author's 44th birthday in 1900 (Frank) Baum |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: The first English version of this adventure novel was called "The Family Robinson Crusoe" The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: "Teammates" is a children's book about this man who became the 1st Black Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: This creator of The Pushmi-Pullyu also wrote "Porridge Poetry", a book of poems for children Hugh Lofting |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): T.H. White revised this 1939 book & republished it in 1958 as part of "The Once and Future King" The Sword in the Stone |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $100: This dog's name had a double meaning: it referred to his color & to his yelling bark Old Yeller |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: This girl detective goes on safari in East Africa in "The Spider Sapphire Mystery" Nancy Drew |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $300: In "Jo's Boys", this author wrote that Jo "the Ugly Duckling" became "a golden goose" Louisa May Alcott |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Princess Ozma & Dorothy journey to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers in his book "Glinda of Oz" L. Frank Baum |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $500: Chapter 11 of her book "Little House on the Prairie" is titled "Indians in the House" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This 1980 novel was the first book in Jean Auel's "Earth's Children" series Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Budgie, the title character of children's books writen by the Duchess of York, is one of these a helicopter |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | AWARDS $1000: The American Library Association awards the Newbery Medal for writing children's books & this medal for illustration the Caldecott Medal |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He wrote 14 books about Oz, & some short stories too L. Frank Baum |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: The adventures of Toad, Rat & Mole were featured in this 1908 Kenneth Grahame children's classic The Wind in the Willows |
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