Who Wrote This Kid Classic? (3)

[D] Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake | Dahl's grandmother told him witch stories in Norway. Publishers wanted happy ending; Dahl refused—boy stays mouse, lives happily.

[C] Michael Bond | Bond saw lonely teddy in shop Christmas Eve 1956. Named after Paddington Station where parents put him on evacuation train.

[B] Kenneth Grahame | Bedtime stories for son Alastair who later killed himself at Oxford. Mole's spring cleaning inspired by Grahame escaping bank job.

[C] Mildred D Taylor | Based on father's Depression-era Mississippi stories. Taylor quit Colorado teaching to write; won Newbery fighting publishing's whiteness.

[A] Astrid Lindgren | Soviet Union loved selfish Karlsson more than Sweden did. Lindgren said he represented adults' worst qualities children recognize.

[D] Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer | Architect Juster procrastinating on different book. Roommate Feiffer illustrated for free; both unknowns became classics together.

[B] Dr Seuss | Publisher bet Seuss couldn't write book using only 225 words. Won bet, revolutionized children's literacy, killed Dick and Jane.

[A] Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline | DiCamillo's friend suggested writing about toy rabbit. Exploration of love after loss became meditation on opening broken hearts.

[B] JM Barrie | Barrie gave copyright to children's hospital, still funding it. Brother's childhood death froze Barrie's emotional development—eternal boy created.

[C] Anonymous / folk | Persian, Indian, Arabic tales merged over centuries. Scheherazade's frame story added later—history's first cliff-hanger series.

[D] EL Konigsburg | Konigsburg's Met Museum visits with her children inspired runaways. Michelangelo secret based on her feeling misunderstood suburban mom.

[D] Judith Kerr | Autobiographical escape from Nazi Germany, father on death list. Pink rabbit left behind became symbol of stolen childhood.

[A] G'afur G'ulom | Uzbek classic about orphan boy during collectivization. G'ulom survived Stalin's purges; characters didn't all survive story.

[C] Gabrielle Vincent | Belgian author fought for watercolor illustrations when publishers wanted bright colors. Bear-mouse friendship challenged children's book conventions.

[C] Elle McNicoll | Autistic author wrote after diagnosis at 21. Witch trials parallel to neurodivergent persecution; publishing's first autistic #OwnVoices sensation.

[A] René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé | Goscinny wrote while creating Asterix; Sempé illustrated between New Yorker covers. French childhood's universal troublemaker born.

[D] Anna Sewell | Sewell, injured and housebound, wrote only novel from bed. Died five months after publication; horse welfare laws followed.

[D] Jean Webster | Vassar graduate championed women's education and suffrage. Died in childbirth year after marrying her "Daddy-Long-Legs."

[B] Tomi Ungerer | Anarchist Ungerer challenged saccharine children's literature. Piper Paw's anger at forced affection reflected 60s anti-establishment mood.

[B] Gerald Durrell | Ten-year-old naturalist in Corfu before war. Brother Lawrence jealous of Gerald's bestseller; literary rivalry produced more books.

[A] Katherine Paterson | Biblical twin rivalry set in Chesapeake Bay. Paterson's missionary childhood in China influenced outsider perspectives.

[B] Dr Seuss | Written in one afternoon after Kenya trip. Logging industry protested; some schools banned it. Now prophecy, not fiction.

[A] Charles Perrault | Court of Louis XIV needed entertainment; Perrault delivered peasant tales in silk. Cinderella's slipper was fur, not glass—translation error stuck.

[D] Tove Jansson | First Moomin book, rare now. Written during war wondering if world would survive—flood both literal and metaphorical.

[C] L Frank Baum | Written after business failures to entertain neighborhood children. Silver shoes changed to ruby for Technicolor—Hollywood improved literature once.

[C] Richmal Crompton | Classics teacher wrote 39 William books while teaching Latin. Never married, claimed William was birth control enough.

[A] Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake | Dahl's hatred of beards inspired Mr. Twit. Wife Patricia Neal recovering from strokes while he wrote gleeful nastiness.

[B] Russell Hoban | Existential clockwork toys seeking self-winding capacity. Too philosophical for children said critics; children disagreed profoundly.

[A] Sharon M Draper | Teacher Draper advocated for disabled students. Melody's cerebral palsy based on real student; voice technology finally let story exist.

[C] Tove Jansson | Last Moomin novel, Moomins absent entirely. Written after mother's death; emptiness and waiting became meditation on grief.

[D] Laura Ingalls Wilder | Daughter Rose heavily edited, possibly ghostwrote. Depression poverty forced autobiography disguised as fiction for children.

[D] Roald Dahl | Only Dahl book without villain, just loving father-son poaching pheasants. Based on Dahl's own father who died when he was three.

[A] Raymond Briggs | Wordless grief for mortality in children's book form. Walking in Air song added for film; Briggs preferred silence.

[C] Suzy Lee | Wordless trilogy about boundaries—physical book's gutter becomes ocean's edge. Lee's daughter's beach play became meditation on courage.

[C] Lisa Tetzner | Swiss child chimney sweeps sold to Milan. Tetzner fled Nazis while writing; child slavery paralleled contemporary horrors.

[B] Margery Williams | Written after daughter's scarlet fever toys were burned. Real through being loved became philosophy disguised as bedtime story.

[B] Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler created elaborate persona, refused photographs. Gothic orphan tales mocking happy endings while being oddly comforting.

[A] Neil Gaiman | Inspired watching son ride tricycle through graveyard. Jungle Book but with ghosts; grew-up Bod leaves like Mowgli must.

[B] Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien | First graphic novel winning Printz Award. Yang's identity struggles became Monkey King meets suburban racism.

[D] Salman Rushdie | Written in hiding under fatwa for son Haroun. Pollution of story-ocean paralleled fundamentalist censorship threatening author's life.