#9040, aired 2024-02-16 | FICTION & NONFICTION $600: She worked as a librarian before writing classic kids' books like "The Mouse & the Motorcycle" Cleary |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $100: In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", he's the eccentric owner of the factory Willy Wonka |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: "The Story of Ferdinand" tells of one of these animals who loves to sit quietly & smell the flowers a bull |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $300: After a journey from Peru to England, this character was discovered on a railway platform in London, sitting on his suitcase Paddington Bear |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $400: In a book by Johanna Spyri, this title orphan is sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps Heidi |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $500: Also a noted essayist, he gave us the books "Charlotte's Web" & "Stuart Little" E.B. White |
#8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $400: The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $400: In a classic by Crockett Johnson, this kid takes a walk & draws his own world with a purple crayon Harold |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $600: The Truffula tree is on the verge of extinction in this classic by Dr. Seuss The Lorax |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $400: This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism The Snowy Day |
#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? |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: He's the royal elephant created by illustrator Jean de Brunhoff Babar |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $600: In a Dr. Seuss story he said, with fingers nervously drumming, "I must find some way to stop Christmas from coming!" the Grinch |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $800: Fast friends Jess & Leslie create a secret & magical kingdom across the creek in this Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kids really dig this 1998 book featuring Stanley Yelnats & Zero, 2 of the young inmates at Camp Green Lake Holes |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $1000: Lois Lowry won a 1990 Newbery Medal for this book about helping Jews to escape Denmark & the Nazis during World War II Number the Stars |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1200: (Hi, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) One of my favorite books is this kids' classic in which 5th graders Jess & Leslie create a secret kingdom in the woods Bridge to Terabithia |
#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 |
#6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $800: A kids' classic:
"'Where's papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother" Charlotte's Web |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $400: A classic from 1940:
"Pat the ____" Bunny |