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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Literature - Children's Literature   
      
   > 1. He wrote 46 children's books, but had no children of his own.   
   >    In 1991 he left an estate valued at roughly $500,000,000.   
   >    His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the date for National   
   >    Read Across America Day.  Name this author.   
      
   Dr. Seuss   
      
   > 2. This is a story about three animals traveling in the wilderness.   
   >    It became a bestseller after it formed the basis of a successful   
   >    Disney film.  It is marketed as a children's book, and won   
   >    the 1961 Canadian Children's Book of the Year award, but the   
   >    author has stated that it was not intended as a children's book.   
   >    Give the title.   
      
   Incredible Journey   
      
   > 3. Benjamin Hoff used this character to explain Taoism.   
   >    Frederick Crews rewrote stories from the same character's world   
   >    in abstruse academic jargon to satirize philosophical approaches.   
   >    John T. Williams uses the character as a backdrop to illustrate   
   >    the works of philosophers, including Descartes, Kant, Plato,   
   >    and Nietzsche.  And the character also has a street named after   
   >    him in Warsaw (Ulica Kubusia Puchatka) and another in Budapest   
   >    (Micimack? utca).  Name the character.   
      
   Winnie the Pooh   
      
   > 4. This children's book slowly became a bestseller.  Annual sales   
   >    grew from about 1,500 copies in 1953 to 20,000 in 1970.   
   >    By 1990 the total number of copies sold was more than 4,000,000.   
   >    The National Education Association named the book one of its   
   >    "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" and the "School Library   
   >    Journal" named it one of the top 100 picture books of all   
   >    time.  One feature of this book is the wealth of detail in the   
   >    illustrations.  The entire story takes place in a single room.   
   >    Give the title of this book.   
      
   Goodnight Moon   
      
   > 6. Although no actual writings by this author survive and even   
   >    his existence remains uncertain, numerous tales credited to him   
   >    have been gathered across the centuries and in many languages,   
   >    in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.  In many   
   >    of the tales, animals speak and have human characteristics.   
   >    Name this alleged author.   
      
   Aesop   
      
   > 7. The popularity of these folk tales endured well beyond the   
   >    lifetimes of the men who collected them.  The tales are   
   >    available in more than 100 translations and have been adapted   
   >    to popular films.  In the mid 20th century the tales were used   
   >    as propaganda by the Third Reich.  Later in the 20th century   
   >    psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim reaffirmed the value of   
   >    the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in the original   
   >    versions of some of the tales that were sanitized.  Name the   
   >    *men who collected* these folk tales.   
      
   the Grimm brothers   
      
   > 8. She was an English author who lived 1866-1943.  She was an   
   >    illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known   
   >    for her imaginative children's books featuring animals, which   
   >    celebrated the British landscape and country life.  The titles   
   >    of most of her books begin with "The Tale of" or "The Story of".   
   >    Who was this author?   
      
   Beatrix Potter   
      
   > 9. "The Chronicles of Narnia", a series of 7 high-fantasy novels by   
   >    C.S. Lewis, is considered a classic of children's literature and   
   >    is the author's best-known work.  The first book is "The Lion,   
   >    The Witch, and The Wardrobe"; the second is "Prince Caspian:   
   >    The Return to Narnia".  Name *any one* of the remaining 5 books.   
      
   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader   
      
   > 10. He gave us "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the   
   >    Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", "The Hunting of the   
   >    Snark", "A Tangled Tale", and other works.  Lewis Carroll was   
   >    his nom de plume.  What was this author's *real* name?   
      
   Charles Dodgson   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Toronto-Born Actors/Actresses   
      
   > 3. Born in 1892 in Toronto, this actress was one of four co-founders   
   >    of United Artists.  Later she became one of the 36 founders of   
   >    the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  Before she   
   >    died in 1979 she became a dual Canadian-American citizen.   
   >    Who was this actress?   
      
   Mary Pickford   
      
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