Morgan Lueck

Tidbit #1

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

— Emilie Buchwald

I love this quote! Emily Buchwald is not only a children's book author, but she also taught literature and poetry to children.  This quote really stresses the importance of reading to your children. 

Tidbit #2

Harry Potter

Harry Potter sold about 400 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 65 languages.

Though before the book's popularity, Joanne Rowling had some difficulty finding a publisher that believed her book could amount to anything. Finally Bloomsburry Press agreed to publish the first edition of Harry Potter, but only printed 500 copies for the first edition for fear of them not selling. Also the publisher requested that the author would not use her first name (Joanne) but rather her initials to make it less obvious that the author is a woman assuming that the book's main audience young boys would not want to read a wizard book written by a woman. Since Joanne Rowling did not have a middle name, she chose K for Kathleen.

Tidbit #3

9. “Oh The Places You’ll Go” is the final Seuss book published before he passed away. Published in 1990, it sells about 300,000 copies every year because so many people give it to college and high school grads.

Tidbit #4

• In the United States, people buy an average of 57 books per second.
• • The world's most expensive book ever purchased was bought by Bill Gates at auction for $30.8 million dollars. The title of the book is Codex Leicester by Leonard da Vinci.
  • • The longest novel available to read is Marienbad My Love by Mark Leach at 17 million words. You can actually read this novel by going to Marienbadmylove.com
    
    Tidbit #5
    Catherine Sefton is really a man.. Catherine Sefton's real name is Martin Waddell, and several of the Sefton books have now been reprinted under the author's true name.
    
    
     
    
  
  
  
  
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  Emily Dickinson wrote over 1,800 poems. Only seven were published in her lifetime, all without her consent.
  
  Tidbit #7
  Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, died at the age of 74 on 23^rd November, 1990. He was buried in Great Missenden with some items that he treasured, including: snooker cues, chocolates and HB pencils.
  
  
  Tidbit #8
  Tony the Tiger, AKA Thurl Ravenscroft, is the voice behind "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." (From Dr. Seuss' famous book How the Grinch Stole Christmas)  He received no credit on screen, so Dr. Seuss wrote to columnists in every major U.S. newspaper to tell them exactly who had sung the song 
  

  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkOswldUEo

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VEQbZUVGI
  
  Tidbit #9
  J.K. Rowling attended a village school in Tutshill (in the UK). One of the teachers at the school was one of the individuals who influenced the character of Severus Snape.  Her best friend at school was called Sean Harris. She dedicated Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to him. Ron Weasley is apparently very much like Sean Harris. J.K. Rowling planned out the entire seven-book series before she started to write the first one! She nearly always writes complete histories for all of her characters. Much of this information and detail does not actually end up in her books. 
  
  Tidbit #10
  

  Fun with words!

  • "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not have one syllable. It has three!   
  • The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
  • The highest scoring word in the game Scrabble is "quartzy".
  • "Lollipop" is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand.
  • The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 
  • China has more English speakers than the United States.