Tuesday, June 10, 2008

A World of Characters: From Antonella to Ziba

UPDATE (June 18): I received an email from someone asking for clarification about the contest rules.

There is one name listed for each separate character. There are some names listed twice (Sebastian, Paul, Lisa) due to the fact that these are characters - from separate books - with the same name. I neglected to point out that there is one character listed who appears in more than one book within the same series. I apologize for the confusion and will select the winner according to the number of correct books listed for each character found on the alphabetical list.



Thanks to the Children's Literature Book Club, I've been looking at the characters of our books in a whole new way. Here's my version of our alphabetical list of guys, gals and critters great and small:

A
Anna
Antonella

Apollo / Apolo

B
Benny
Bobbie

C
Cherry
Claude
Coco

D
Daisy

Dan
Dave
Dougal

E
Eddie / Eduardo

F
Fanny
Figaro
Fox
Fox
Flusi


G
George
Grace

Growl
Guji Guji

H
Hannah

I

J
Jack Russell

Jeremy
Jonathon

K

Kali

Kevin

L

Lisa
Lisa
Lizard

Lucky

M

Madame Coco
Marc
Marta
Minji
Monique
Mustafa

N
Nico


O
Otto


P
Paul
Paul
Perfect

Pip

Q

R
Riley

Rosa
Rosaura
Rose

S
Sala
Sally
Sebastian
Sebastian

Selma
Shau-yu
Snake
Sophie

Sosu

T

Thorfinn
Thomas
Tibili
Troy

U

V

W
Wilfrid
Wombat

X

Y
Yoon

Z
Ziba

And, because we haven't put together a contest lately, the person who provides the most correct number of book titles that each character belongs to will win a FREE set of our fall titles. I'll give you a hint for the fall titles that haven't been released yet:

Thorfinn is from Singing to the Sun
Yoon is from Something for School
Growl ... The Story of Growl
George... The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness
Snake & Lizard from... (you guessed it) Snake and Lizard
Wombat & Fox... (yep) Wombat & Fox
Perfect and Pip from...The Wicket Chronicles (Books 1 & 2: Ely Plot and Fen Gold)

Readers have until August 1, 2008 to respond. Winners will be notified via email and in the K/M weekly newsletter, scheduled to be sent out on August 6, 2008.

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