Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (360 results returned)

#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..." Broom
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A Newbery Medal winner, "The One and Only" him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla Ivan
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy" Shel Silverstein
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead" Lemony Snicket
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author Milne
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley
#4, aired 2023-05-09LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In an oft-cited example of false memory, many folks firmly but wrongly remember this inquisitive monkey as having a tail Curious George
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy)
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In this 1930 book with the refrain "I think I can", the protagonist is female & the unhelpful other locomotives are guys The Little Engine That Could
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The collaborations of writer Jon Scieszka & illustrator Lane Smith include the 1992 tale of this odoriferous man the Stinky Cheese Man
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny
#8430, aired 2021-06-25WORLD LITERATURE $400: Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best remembered for the 1943 children's tale "The Little" this Prince
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The recipe for this title Judy Blume "Juice" includes grape juice, vinegar & mustard Freckle (Freckle Juice)
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The Washington Post editorialized that "If You Give a Mouse" this was a criticism of the welfare state a Cookie
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: Books about this title simian include his visit to an aquarium & him making pancakes Curious George
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: The "World's Greatest Detective", this kid, rhymingly "the Great", solves all sorts of crimes, often in a deerstalker cap Nate (Nate the Great)
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2000: A children's literature prize first given in 2003 is named for this Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking (Astrid) Lindgren
#8305, aired 2020-12-18LITERATURE $2000: This playwright's "The Children's Hour" was inspired by a real case suggested by Dashiell Hammett (Lillian) Hellman
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A tiny one of these dinosaurs has a big problem: an impossible hug, because of his short arms! a Tyrannosaurus
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This bedtime classic is set in "the great green room" Goodnight Moon
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and--pop!--out of the egg came" this title larva the very hungry caterpillar
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): She wrote about & illustrated a frog named Mr. Jeremy Fisher & a hedgehog named Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle Beatrix Potter
#7465, aired 2017-02-10LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-franc note the Little Prince
#7454, aired 2017-01-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A character known as Sam-I-Am is the persistent purveyor of this title paired offering green eggs and ham
#7454, aired 2017-01-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This classic by Maurice Sendak was turned into a 1980 opera Where the Wild Things Are
#7454, aired 2017-01-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Here's an illustration of this title girl and her pet monkey, Mr. Nilsson Pippi Longstocking
#7454, aired 2017-01-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: A book by Virginia Lee Burton is titled "Mike Mulligan and" this large construction tool a steam shovel
#7454, aired 2017-01-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: During WWII the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to an old professor's country estate in this 1950 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
#7417, aired 2016-12-06CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet" Pinocchio
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: His "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" begins when he wakes up with gum in his hair Alexander
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa the yellow hat
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted)
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: She is "exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf... through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage" Tinker Bell
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This bear is named for a train station & arrives in England as a stowaway from South America Paddington
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In a work by Crockett Johnson, he draws his own world with his purple crayon Harold
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "If You Give a" child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book, he's liable to ask for another If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In 1888, before his imprisonment, this playwright published "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" for children Oscar Wilde
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Matchboxes make good dressers for the tiny Clock family in this 1952 story by Mary Norton The Borrowers
#7154, aired 2015-10-22FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who perished in a WWII plane crash, is today best known for this children's tale The Little Prince
#7002, aired 2015-02-10FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance
#6937, aired 2014-11-11LITERARY AWARDS $600: A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this "Pippi Longstocking" author Astrid Lindgren
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Sally & her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat the Cat in the Hat
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Mowgli's Brothers" is the first story in this 1894 collection The Jungle Book
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963 Encyclopedia Brown
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This Hans Christian Andersen maiden was born in a tulip; a polished walnut shell served as her cradle Thumbelina
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This mouse created by Lucy Cousins for preschoolers has such friends as Cyril the Squirrel & Eddie the Elephant Maisy the Mouse
#6190, aired 2011-07-08QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $600: In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" Treasure Island
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Sketches written for Punch became his first novel, "Lovers in London"; Winnie-the-Pooh came 21 years later (A.A.) Milne
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks Lewis Carroll
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington
#5934, aired 2010-06-03ENGLISH LITERATURE $8,400 (Daily Double): This children's novel begins, "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
#5729, aired 2009-07-02LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $400: The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children's magazine in 1881 Pinocchio
#5182, aired 2007-03-06IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $2000: In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature C.S. Lewis
#4907, aired 2006-01-03HAPPY "NEW" YEAR $2000: First awarded in 1922, this medal is given out for excellence in U.S. children's literature the Newbery
#4633, aired 2004-10-27CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $800: This "parish boy" hero is born in a workhouse & becomes one of Fagin's thieves Oliver Twist
#4494, aired 2004-03-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: The Mock Turtle sings a song about the Lobster Quadrille in this classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: An adaptation of this Grimm tale includes the line "Who is gnawing at my house?" "Hansel and Gretel"
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Amsterdam.) Mary Mapes Dodge had never been to Holland when she wrote this 1865 tale set on Dutch canals "Hans Brinker" or "The Silver Skates"
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): "If You Give a Mouse a Muffin" is a follow-up to this 1985 book by Felicia Bond & Laura Joffe Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: In 1962 this author & illustrator published "The Nutshell Library", which includes the book "Chicken Soup with Rice" Maurice Sendak
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" sang its sweet melodies for the emperor of this country China
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", 4 siblings rule this land from the throne at Cair Paravel Narnia
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: Long John Silver was the mutinous cook aboard this "Treasure Island" ship that shares its name with a Caribbean island Hispaniola
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2000: On his third voyage, Gulliver encountered this floating island populated by philosophers Laputa
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): In an 1883 fantasy by Carlo Collodi, Mr. Cherry, a carpenter, gives a piece of talking wood to this old man Geppetto
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: "I Think I Can" is a lesson & a quote from this 1945 story "The Little Engine That Could"
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Thing One & Thing Two are characters in this 1957 Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat"
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A young rabbit gets ready for bed in this classic by Margaret Wise Brown "Goodnight Moon"
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He's the puppy seen here Spot
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In this Natalie Babbitt book, the Tuck family tries to convince Winnie that living forever is a curse "Tuck Everlasting"
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In a folktale, this yummy "man" runs away after he is baked & is later eaten by a sly fox Gingerbread Man
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In this Hans Christian Andersen story, a child observes, "He has got nothing on at all!" "The Emperor's New Clothes"
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He's the character described in the audiobook heard here (He liked to sit just quietly & smell the flowers) Ferdinand the Bull
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Ichabod Crane & Brom Bones are rivals for the affections of Katrina Van Tassel in this story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a 1970 Judy Blume book, this title character asked, "Are you there God?" Margaret
#3340, aired 1999-02-26ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON $1,900 (Daily Double): Written in a matter of weeks in 1881, this pirate tale changed the face of children's literature Treasure Island
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: This 5-year-old orphan from the Swiss Alps is also called Adelheid Heidi
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Dorothy's pal in "The Wizard of Oz" who wiped his eyes with his tail so often that "it became quite wet" the Cowardly Lion
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: The first character Alice meets in Wonderland, he wears a waistcoat & a pocket watch the White Rabbit
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Jim Hawkins, the Hispaniola's cabin boy, narrates this Robert Louis Stevenson tale Treasure Island
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This Kenneth Grahame novel began as a series of bedtime tales told to his son starting in 1904 The Wind in the Willows
#3224, aired 1998-09-17LITERATURE $400: This children's story describes Toad Hall as "a dignified old house of mellowed red brick" The Wind in the Willows
#3196, aired 1998-06-22WHAT'S "NEW"? $1000: Medal given for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" Newbery Medal
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Audrey Wood & David Shannon's new book about this great big logger introduces his wife & kids Paul Bunyan
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Stan & Jan Berenstain have written a series of books about a family of these title animals "The Berenstain Bears"
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Cavatica is the last name of the title character of this 1952 E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This character in a book by Saint-Exupery leaves his tiny planet because of a prideful flower The Little Prince
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: The cut-paper illustrations of "Golem" earned David Wisniewski this medal in 1997 the Caldecott Medal
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Geppetto named him after a family he knew that turned out well Pinocchio
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a Kipling "Just So" story, the animal that "said 'Humph!' just 'Humph!' and no more" camel
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: The one that belonged to Colin Craven's mother is the "Secret" one in the title garden
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: J.R.R. Tolkien finished "The Lord of the Rings" with this Narnia author's encouragement C.S. Lewis
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this kind of animal rat
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Tolkien called these creatures "A little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves" Hobbits
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Laurent de Brunhoff continued his father's tales about this elephant king Babar
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Pal, a male collie, played the lead in the 1943 movie version of this Eric Knight novel Lassie Come Home
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In a Grimm tale, a group of aging animals set out for this town to become musicians Bremen
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: While recovering from an illness, P.L. Travers wrote her first stories about this magical British nursemaid Mary Poppins
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: He drew his own illustrations for his "Just So Stories" Rudyard Kipling
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "The Frog Prince" & "Hans in Luck" were 2 of the tales they gathered in "Kinder- und Hausmarchen" the Brothers Grimm
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: When she's 8 years old, this Johanna Spyri heroine is taken from the mountains by Dete Heidi
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Margery Two-Shoes is another name of the title character of this John Newbery story Goody Two-Shoes
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a 1958 book by Michael Bond, the Brown family discovers this bear's fondness for marmalade Paddington
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CRIME $100: She commits murder when she pushes the witch into the oven to save her brother Gretel
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CRIME $200: Perrault's story about her ends with the vwolf eating her after she admires his big teeth Little Red Riding Hood
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CRIME $300: This wandering gander threw an old man down stairs for not saying his prayers Goosey Goosey
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CRIME $400: She's poisoned twice: once by a tainted comb, once by a tainted apple Snow White
#2745, aired 1996-07-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CRIME $500: She does a little breaking & entering at the bears' house Goldilocks
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In this Hans Christian Andersen tale, a little child remarks "He doesn't have anything on!" The Emperor's New Clothes
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He spins straw into gold for the miller's daughter Rumpelstiltskin
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Before becoming a sea captain, Lemuel Gulliver practices this profession medicine
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This legendary outlaw of Nottinghamshire began appearing in children's books in the 19th century Robin Hood
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This book's first edition said it was "translated from the original equine, by Anna Sewell" Black Beauty
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: His "Kidnapped" was first published as a serial in Young Folks magazine Robert Louis Stevenson
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This story was first chronicled by Perrault as "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" "Little Red Riding Hood"
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He dedicated "Now We Are Six" to Christopher Robin's best friend, Anne Darlington A.A. Milne
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This Mary Mapes Dodge novel contains the story of a boy who thrust his finger into a hole in a dike Hans Brinker
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: "Green Grass of Wyoming" was the 2nd sequel to this novel about Ken McLaughlin & his half-wild filly My Friend Flicka
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: For this story James M. Barrie took the name Never Land from a district in Australia Peter Pan
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" appears in this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Through the Looking-Glass
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: An inventor, Commander Caractacus Pott, owns this magical car created by Ian Fleming Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Mary Mapes Dodge wrote a novel about this title character without ever visiting Holland Hans Brinker
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This story, called "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" in French, was first published in English in 1729 Little Red Riding Hood
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In "The Brass Bottle", Horace Ventimore buys an antique brass bottle that contains one of these beings a genie
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Not only could this nursery rhyme character "eat no fat", he had a cat with only one hair Jack Sprat
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew Cubbins finds that every time he removes one of these, another appears hats
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books C.S. Lewis
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: She was an invalid during the years it took her to write "Black Beauty" Anna Sewell
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In "The Jungle Book", this mongoose fights cobras who are trying to kill the family he lives with Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Flag, a fawn, causes a crisis between Jody Baxter & his father in this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings book The Yearling
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Johanna Heusser was the maiden name of this author of "Heidi" Johanna Spyri
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: He published 2 unsuccessful novels before his "King Solomon's Mines" became a bestseller H. Rider Haggard
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Sarah Josepha Hale was the first editor to publish stories by this "Secret Garden" author Frances Hodgson Burnett
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", this submarine visits Atlantis the Nautilus
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: His fairy tales first appeared in English in 1846, 11 years after they were published in Danish Hans Christian Andersen
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: "The Sea Cook" was the working title of this 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In Carlo Collodi's story, Pinocchio turns into this animal & is sold to a circus a donkey
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This Illinois poet wrote 3 collections of nonsense tales about the Rootabaga country (Carl) Sandburg
#2399, aired 1995-01-26LITERATURE $600: This Kurt Vonnegut novel about Billy Pilgrim is subtitled "Or, the Children's Crusade" Slaughterhouse-Five
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Kenneth Grahame considered calling this 1908 classic "The Wind in the Reeds" The Wind in the Willows
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Gretel Brinker, not her brother Hans, wins these title objects in a race silver skates
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: She edited a children's magazine called Merry's Museum before she published "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The Ingalls family moves to Minnesota in her book "On the Banks of Plum Creek" Laura Ingalls Wilder
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This author's Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle may be the most famous hedgehog in literature Beatrix Potter
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: After baking the witch alive, this pair return to their parents' house with pearls & jewels Hansel & Gretel
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 3 of the 10 chapters in his "The House at Pooh Corner" concern Tigger who's introduced in the book (A.A.) Milne
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "The Sword in the Stone" is the first of the 4 parts of this T.H. White work The Once and Future King
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In this Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Mary, an orphan, comes to live at Misselthwaite Manor The Secret Garden
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This author of "Heidi" began writing to earn money for Franco-Prussian War refugees (Johanna) Spyri
#2356, aired 1994-11-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: He rewrote his first Alice book as "The Nursery Alice", a book for very young children Lewis Carroll
#2356, aired 1994-11-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In The Winnie-the-Pooh stories, this marsupial is Kanga's kid Roo
#2356, aired 1994-11-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "Our Exploits at West Poley" is this "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" author's only book for children (Thomas) Hardy
#2356, aired 1994-11-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Pippi Longstocking lives by herself in Villa Villekula in this country Sweden
#2356, aired 1994-11-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,700 (Daily Double): "The Last Battle", the last of his Narnia books, won the 1956 Carnegie Medal (C.S.) Lewis
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The first use of this name for the heroine of "The Three Bears" occurred around 1904 Goldilocks
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In this 1726 satire, high heels & low heels in Lilliput represent the Tories & the Whigs Gulliver's Travels
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "Anne of Avonlea" was the first sequel to this 1908 book about a red-haired orphan girl Anne of Green Gables
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In 1942 this "Dr. Dolittle" author wrote an anti-war poem for adults titled "Victory for the Slain" (Hugh) Lofting
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In this Mary Rodgers story, a 13-year-old girl wakes up to find that she has become her own mother Freaky Friday
#2201, aired 1994-03-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: This book's title was originally followed by "and Mr. McGregor's Garden" Peter Rabbit
#2201, aired 1994-03-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This bull would rather smell flowers than fight Ferdinand
#2201, aired 1994-03-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him!" this Dr. Seuss character The Cat in the Hat
#2201, aired 1994-03-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In this 1908 novel, Rat, Toad & Badger reside on the banks of an English river The Wind in the Willows
#2201, aired 1994-03-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: The ALA awards this medal annually for the most distinguished children's picture book the Caldecott Award
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: They're made of "frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails" little boys
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot", this many "days old" nine
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: At the end of the Grimms' version of the story, pigeons peck out the eyes of her stepsisters Cinderella
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This character created by Antoine de Saint-Exupery came to Earth from an asteroid the Little Prince
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in a flower, her cradle was a polished walnut shell Thumbelina
#2179, aired 1994-02-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Great Dane who wrote "The Ice Maiden", "The Snow Man" & "The Snow Queen" (Hans Christian) Andersen
#2179, aired 1994-02-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In 1982, 48 years after the first book, this magical nanny popped up again "in Cherry Tree Lane" Mary Poppins
#2179, aired 1994-02-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He dedicated "Now We Are Six" to Anne Darlington, Christopher Robin's best friend (A.A.) Milne
#2179, aired 1994-02-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Under the pseudonym Felix Salten, Siegmund Salzmann wrote this 1923 classic about a deer Bambi
#2179, aired 1994-02-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This American known for his humorous poems wrote a 1951 children's book called "Parents Keep Out" Ogden Nash
#2171, aired 1994-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: According to Signe Toksvig, this author's "The Ugly Duckling" was a veiled autobiography Andersen
#2171, aired 1994-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In the Grimms' story, this character is called Sneewittchen Snow White
#2171, aired 1994-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "The Invisible Man" author who wrote 1 book exclusively for kids, "The Adventures of Tommy" H.G. Wells
#2171, aired 1994-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Flag is the name of the deer in this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings story The Yearling
#2171, aired 1994-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In an 1881 novel by James Otis, this boy runs away with the circus Toby Tyler
#2146, aired 1993-12-27ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Part II of this allegory deals with the journey of Christian's wife & children to the Celestial City Pilgrim's Progress
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "Mowgli's Brothers" is the first story in his 1894 collection "The Jungle Book" (Rudyard) Kipling
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Alger Hiss accuser Whittaker Chambers translated this Felix Salten work about deer into English Bambi
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This author of "The Wind in the Willows" was a descendant of Scottish King Robert the Bruce (Kenneth) Grahame
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This British lord helped initiate the Boy Scout movement with "Scouting for Boys" in 1908 Baden-Powell
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: She wrote "Hans Brinker" without ever having visited Holland Mary Mapes Dodge
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: The story of this beloved collie was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 Lassie
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This character is "the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been" Willy Wonka
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Local legends about 17th century outlaws in the Doone Valley inspired Richard Blackmore's novel about her Lorna Doone
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The rats in her English home, Hill Top, inspired her to write "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" Beatrix Potter
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Little Lord Fauntleroy calls this relative "Dearest" his mother
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character awakes from a 20-year nap to find himself one of the oldest men in the village Rip Van Winkle
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1991 this inquisitive monkey in books by H.A. Rey celebrated his 50th birthday Curious George
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "Little Dorothy and Toto" was one of the books in his "Little Wizard Stories" series Baum
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the name of the "Little Helicopter" in a 1989 book by the Duchess of York Budgie
#2001, aired 1993-04-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Babar & his cousin Celeste were elected king & queen of these animals elephants
#2001, aired 1993-04-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Legend says he based the prince in "The Little Mermaid" on a girl who rejected him for another man Hans Christian Andersen
#2001, aired 1993-04-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In the Grimms' "Jorinda & Joringel", Jorinda turns into one of these "nocturnal" singing birds a nightingale
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In the first draft of "Peter Pan", this fairy's name was Tippy-Toe Tinker Bell
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: George Selden wrote about one of these "in Times Square" while Dickens' was "on the Hearth" a cricket
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: This title rag doll made her first appearance in 1918 in a collection of stories by Johnny Gruelle Raggedy Ann
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Created by Astrid Lindgren, this Swedish girl believes her father is a cannibal king Pippi Longstocking
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Michael Bond named this fictional bear for a London railroad station Paddington Bear
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In the original story, Pinocchio finds this woodcarver in the belly of a giant shark, not a whale Gepetto
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The French fairy tale character Le Petit Poucet is known in English as Hop O' my this Thumb
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In 1943 she described her experiences as a teacher on the prairie in "These Happy Golden Years" Laura Ingalls Wilder
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Peter the goatherd & this title character help Clara Sesemann learn how to walk Heidi
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: One of the first American editions of this British book was titled "Schooldays at Rugby" Tom Brown's Schooldays
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Finding no bone in the cupboard, she buys her dog some bread, tripe & beer Old Mother Hubbard
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 1911's "Peter and Wendy" was a retelling of this play in book form Peter Pan
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In a 1938 novel, would- be polar explorer Mr. Popper raises a flock of these birds penguins
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Perrault's version of this fairy story was published in 1696 as "La Belle au Bois Dormant" Sleeping Beauty
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: The Rose Garden at Maytham Hall, Kent was one inspiration for this Frances Hodgson Burnett book The Secret Garden
#1954, aired 1993-02-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Part of this 1926 A.A. Milne children's book is set in the Hundred Acre Wood Winnie-the-Pooh
#1952, aired 1993-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: He dedicated "The Prince and the Pauper" to his daughters Susie & Clara Mark Twain
#1952, aired 1993-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: When Wilbur the pig meets her, she's hanging from her home waving one of her 8 legs at him Charlotte
#1952, aired 1993-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Lucy Maud Montgomery called her 1909 sequel to "Anne of Green Gables" "Anne of" this place Avonlea
#1952, aired 1993-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Englishwoman who based Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle on her own pet hedgehog who drank from a doll's teacup Beatrix Potter
#1952, aired 1993-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: He emigrated to England after his aunt Lucy moved to the Home for Retired Bears in Lima Paddington
#1882, aired 1992-11-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: He based many of his children's stories on his son Christopher Robin & the boy's stuffed toys A.A. Milne
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: "Jim Smiley and His Frog" was the original title of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this place Calaveras County
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The adventures of Rat, Mole, Toad & Badger are told in this 1908 British book The Wind in the Willows
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: In this work, James M. Barrie based Nana partly upon his wife's St. Bernard, Porthos Peter Pan
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In "Rumplestiltskin", it's the trade of the man whose daughter must spin straw into gold Miller
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In an interview, Dr. Seuss said he modeled this domineering reptile on Adolf Hitler Yertle the Turtle
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "The House at Pooh Corner" was A.A. Milne's sequel to this 1926 book Winnie-The-Pooh
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The adventure stories called Robinsonades are modeled on this book Robinson Crusoe
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Mme d'Aulnoy's "The Blue Bird" may be the source of this prince's name found in many fairy tales Prince Charming
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Mary Pickford played Cedric Errol in a 1921 silent film of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book Little Lord Fauntleroy
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): The first installment of this Carlo Collodi tale appeared in Giornale dei Bambini in 1880 Pinocchio
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: The voyages of this Hugh Lofting physician won the author a Newbery medal in 1923 Doctor Dolittle
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This 1894 collection begins with the story "Mowgli's Brothers" The Jungle Book
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: This poem by Lewis Carroll begins, "Twas brillig & the slithy toves did gyre & gimble in the wabe" "Jabberwocky"
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1890, a year after his "The Master of Ballantrae" was published, he settled in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a Dr. Seuss story, Bartholomew Cubbins had this many hats 500
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In one Grimm tale, 12 princesses dance these to pieces in an underground castle their shoes
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Anne Shirley leaves the orphanage to live on this "colorful" farm in Avonlea Green Gables
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "The Comic Adventures of" this elderly woman "and her Dog" were first published in 1805 Old Mother Hubbard
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Dinarzade is the younger sister of this woman known for her nocturnal stories Scheherazade
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city Paris
#1737, aired 1992-03-03AWARDS $800 (Daily Double): In conjunction with the Caldecott Medal, the ALA awards this one for children's literature the Newbery Medal
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: A sumo wrestler falls for a stronger woman in "Three Strong Women: A Tall Tale from" this country Japan
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Hans Christian Andersen story in which a little child says, "But he hasn't got anything on” The Emperor's (New) Clothes
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Profession of the man who killed 7 flies with 1 blow & knocked off a couple of giants, too tailor
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In some versions this dead relative appears to Cinderella in the form of a cow mother
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a book by Christina Bjork, a girl named Linnea visits this artist's gardens at Giverny (Claude) Monet
#1641, aired 1991-10-21LITERATURE $200: Jacob & Wilhelm's "Children's and Household Tales" are better known by this title Grimm's Fairy Tales
#1564, aired 1991-05-23KIDDIE LITERATURE $300: He first enchanted children with 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Before Dorothy & friends entered here, they were given green spectacles to wear for protection the Emerald City
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Ludwig Bemelmans' "Madeline" attends a boarding school in this city Paris
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Munro Leaf's bull who'd rather smell the flowers than fight Ferdinand
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: You might say he wrote the book on nonsense, since he's the author of "The Book of Nonsense" Edward Lear
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Margery Williams story of a toy brought to life by love; it's a hare-raising tale The Velveteen Rabbit
#1444, aired 1990-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: "The Clue of the Hissing Serpent" is one of the many mystery stories about these boys the Hardy Boys
#1444, aired 1990-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A.A. Milne's son whose stuffed toys inspired Pooh & his friends was named this Christopher Robin
#1444, aired 1990-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: The talking cricket tells him, "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home" Pinocchio
#1444, aired 1990-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): The heroine of this fairy tale is sometimes known as Briar Rose Sleeping Beauty
#1444, aired 1990-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Charlotte A. Cavatica, who's one of these, says she drinks flies' blood because "I love blood" a spider
#1376, aired 1990-09-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: She didn't start writing her "Little House" novels until she was in her 60s Laura Ingalls Wilder
#1376, aired 1990-09-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This pampered "Little Lord" had beautiful curls & wore a lace collar Little Lord Fauntleroy
#1376, aired 1990-09-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Of Nancy Drew's chums Ned, Bess & George, the one who isn't a girl Ned
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A.A. Milne wrote the popular 1928 children's book called "The House at" this "Corner" Pooh
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In the title of a 1911 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this adjective describes the garden secret
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In "The Snow Queen" Kay becomes mean after fragments of this fly into his eye & his heart glass
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Eloise is a little girl who lives at this New York hotel the Plaza
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: His father, Raff, is a dike worker who fell from a scaffold & lost his memory Hans Brinker
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: She drank the poison that Captain Hook had intended for Peter Pan Tinker Bell
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a Kipling story, the camel got his hump by being lazy & making this contemptuous sound humph
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A donkey, a hound, a cat & a cock are these title characters in a Grimm's fairy tale Bremen Town Musicians
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Chee-Chee the monkey told Dr. Dolittle this was "the rarest animal of the African jungle" pushmi-pullyu
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Under the name Victor Appleton, Edward Stratemeyer created the adventures of this inventive boy Tom Swift
#1328, aired 1990-05-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: He wrote "The Snow Man", "The Snowdrop", "The Ice Maiden" & "The Snow Queen" Hans Christian Andersen
#1328, aired 1990-05-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "...Nearly every man in the village agreed she was the finest collie he had ever laid eyes on" Lassie
#1328, aired 1990-05-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He wrote 14 books about Oz, & some short stories too L. Frank Baum
#1328, aired 1990-05-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The Big Billy Goat Gruff poked this character's eyes out with his horns & crushed him to bits The Troll
#1328, aired 1990-05-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In "The Sword in the Stone", Kay calls this main character "The Wart" King Arthur
#1290, aired 1990-03-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Eric Knight died while serving in WWII, just 4 years after writing the story of this collie Lassie
#1290, aired 1990-03-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Name shared by the 3 billy goats who met up with the wicked old troll Gruff
#1290, aired 1990-03-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: His stories include "Brer Mink Holds His Breath" & "Brer Buzzard & The Tombstone" Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris)
#1290, aired 1990-03-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Willie Wonka owned the world's most famous one a chocolate factory
#1290, aired 1990-03-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: The profession of Nancy Drew's father lawyer
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: This Dr. Seuss animal said, "'That is that.' And then he was gone with a tip of his hat." The Cat in the Hat
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "A Child's Garden of" these Verses
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He's the author & illustrator of "If Beagles Could Fly" Charles Schulz
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In "The Jungle Book" Shere Khan is one of these wild animals a tiger
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Walter L. Farley wrote 20 novels about this dark horse the Black Stallion
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In Aesop's fables this animal is paired with "the Stork", "the Crow" & "the Grapes" a fox
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Title character who turned out to be a ventriloquist from Omaha the Wizard of Oz
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Cinderella's footmen used to be lizards & her coachman, a big one of these a rat
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: When Heidi was at home, he was head of the hut her grandfather
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: After the cobbler's wife made these for the elves, they quit making shoes clothes
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: These 7 characters received their names from the Disney studios, not from the Brothers Grimm The Seven Dwarfs
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The Pied Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of these pests Rats
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805 Hans Christian Andersen
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In this tale, the heroine is named for the rampion her father stole from the witch's garden Rapunzel
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: She wrote 6 sequels to "Anne of Green Gables", but her adult fiction never sold well Lucy Maud Montgomery
#1099, aired 1989-05-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", a children's story as well as the James Bond novels Ian Fleming
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: One of his 1st fairy tales was "The Princess & the Pea", & he wrote 167 others Hans Christian Andersen
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: If you threatened him, the Cowardly Lion might tell you this author's first name was Lyman L. Frank Baum
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This book about a Dutch boy was 1st published the year our Civil War ended The Silver Skates (Hans Brinker)
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: He 1st wrote about Dr. Dolittle in letters he sent home to his children during WWI Hugh Lofting
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This 17th century French critic's collection of fairy tales popularized the story of Cinderella Charles Perrault
#1067, aired 1989-04-04AWARDS $300: The John Newbery Medal is given annually to authors in this field children's literature
#972, aired 1988-11-22LITERATURE $600: At 16 Frances Hodgson Burnett moved from England to U.S. & later wrote this children's classic The Secret Garden (or Little Lord Fauntleroy)
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In Clement Moore's most famous poem, they "were hung by the chimney with care" "The Stockings"
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He kept his wife in a pumpkin shell Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Ward Greene's story of the same name inspired this 1955 Disney doggie romance "Lady And The Tramp"
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Near the end of "Through the Looking Glass", this queen disappears in a bowl of soup White Queen
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This German studied law but was more famous for his "Tales", which inspired an 1881 Offenbach opera Hoffmann
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: After the ogre turned himself into one of these, Puss in Boots ate him a mouse
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He was "bred and born in a briar patch" Brer Rabbit
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In the Hans Christian Andersen tale, she was born inside a tulip-like flower Thumbelina
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: One version says she slept in the hearth; another that she used to sit in the chimney-corner Cinderella
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: The fathers of Hop O'-My-Thumb and Hansel & Gretel did this for a living cut wood
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In this fairy tale, the last words spoken by one of the 3 animal characters were, "And here she is" "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "Tunnel in the Sky" & "A Wrinkle in Time" are 2 novels for children written in this genre science fiction
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Title adjective describing the wilderness "journey" of 2 dogs & a cat to find the humans they love Incredible
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Winnie-the-Pooh's real name Edward Bear
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Of the 4 Bremen Town Musicians, it's the only 2-legged animal rooster (cock)
#847, aired 1988-04-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Island on which you'd find Ben Gunn marooned Treasure Island
#793, aired 1988-02-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Wanting to go about like the goats, she said she didn't want her clothes anymore Heidi
#793, aired 1988-02-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The mother duck thought her ugly duckling was a real turkey but in actuality it was this swan
#793, aired 1988-02-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Animals transformed into horses to pull Cinderella's pumpkin coach mice
#793, aired 1988-02-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Question asked about the location of Peter Piper's production output Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
#501, aired 1986-11-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Illustrator of Flowers & Fungi, she also wrote children's tales like "Peter Rabbit" Beatrix Potter
#409, aired 1986-04-03KIDDIE LIT $500: 1 of 2 best-known awards in U.S. established by Frederick Melcher for children's literature the Newbery (Medal) (or the Caldecott Medal)
#329, aired 1985-12-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: A Rudyard Kipling series of "Stories" is "Just" this Just So
#329, aired 1985-12-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Named for the type of lettuce in the witch's garden , we'd climb her hair if she'd let us Rapunzel
#329, aired 1985-12-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: In the British version their sizes are "little, small, wee", "middle--sized", & "great, huge" the Three Bears
#329, aired 1985-12-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Mr. & Mrs, Brown adopted this bear, named for the Railway station where they met him Paddington Bear
#329, aired 1985-12-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: Edith Fellows played Polly in the films about this family's 5 kids & how they grew The Five Little Peppers
#304, aired 1985-11-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Cookie character who finally fell victim to the wily fox the Gingerbread Man
#304, aired 1985-11-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Some like it in the pot, 9 days old pease porridge hot
#304, aired 1985-11-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Charles & Mary Lamb simplified this author's works in their "Tales" William Shakespeare
#304, aired 1985-11-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Their chubby chum Chet Morton often went along with them to follow up clues the Hardy Boys
#304, aired 1985-11-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: His hat was made of an oak leaf, his shirt of spider web & his trousers of tiny feathers Tom Thumb
#151, aired 1985-04-08GARDENS $200: Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of children's literature A Child's Garden of Verse
#142, aired 1985-03-26EUROPE $200: This country’s Princess Caroline library specializes in children's literature Monaco
#85, aired 1985-01-04TIMELY LITERATURE $1000: Based on obscure Scottish scandal, it was Lillian Hellman's 1st performed work The Children's Hour
#70, aired 1984-12-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Little girl who called "Sunnybrook Farm" home Rebecca
#70, aired 1984-12-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Hans Brinker's were silver ice skates
#70, aired 1984-12-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: As it called, it chanted, "I think I can, I think I can" The Little Engine
#70, aired 1984-12-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Enid Bagnold's book that became Liz Taylor's 1st starring vehicle National Velvet
#52, aired 1984-11-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: "Treasure Island's" peg-legged pirate Long John Silver
#52, aired 1984-11-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: After winning by a "hare", he said, "Slow but sure wins the race" the tortoise
#7, aired 1984-09-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Aesop character that won by a "hare" turtle (or tortoise)
#7, aired 1984-09-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Crusoe named him for the day they met Friday
#7, aired 1984-09-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: They called Robin Hood's companion this, though he was over 7' tall Little John
#7, aired 1984-09-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Gulliver's tiny people the Lilliputians
#7, aired 1984-09-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In one Grimm tale, she's Rose Red's sister Snow White

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (22 results returned)

#8659, aired 2022-06-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince
#8621, aired 2022-04-18WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights)
#8479, aired 2021-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz
#8138, aired 2020-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time
#7567, aired 2017-07-04CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon
#7075, aired 2015-05-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years Winnie the Pooh
#6733, aired 2013-12-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Joy, Nellie & Aranea are 3 of the many children of this title character Charlotte
#6230, aired 2011-10-21CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In the original 1883 work, this title character kills a talking cricket, has his feet burned off & nearly starves Pinocchio
#5503, aired 2008-07-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits Beatrix Potter
#4846, aired 2005-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This one-word name is derived from the fact that the character used to sit among the ashes Cinderella
#4820, aired 2005-07-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This 1952 classic contains the line "No one was with her when she died" Charlotte's Web
#4750, aired 2005-04-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham
#3874, aired 2001-06-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 3 of the countries that make up this land are Gillikin, Winkie & Quadling Oz
#3790, aired 2001-02-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb"
#3655, aired 2000-06-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: "Max et les Maximonstres" is the French title of this children's classic "Where the Wild Things Are"
#3551, aired 2000-01-31CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" was inspired by this famous woman Jenny Lind
#3301, aired 1999-01-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns Madeline
#2362, aired 1994-12-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Last name of the 18th c. bookseller & publisher known as the first to specialize in children's books Newbery
#2226, aired 1994-04-18CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Jennifer Greenway's "A Real Little Bunny" is a sequel to this Margery Williams classic The Velveteen Rabbit
#2035, aired 1993-06-11CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: The success of this book in 1957 prompted Random House to create its "Beginner Books" series The Cat in the Hat
#1152, aired 1989-09-12LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities
#1121, aired 1989-06-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a Eugene Field poem, the wooden shoe stands for a trundle bed, & these 3 for 2 eyes & a head Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

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