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Challenge 1  WHO AM I?

Read through the clues below and see if you can figure out who the author is. Hand your answers in to Mrs Gittins at school or email them to kerry.gittins@mn.catholic.edu.au by Tuesday August 23rd.

__**Author 1**__ I was born in 1916. My parents were Norwegian I went to Repton School My mother wanted me to go to university, but my reply which is my book about my childhood was: "No, thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China." When I graduated from school, I worked for the Shell Oil Company in Tanzania I was a fighter pilot in World War II I wrote my first children's story in 1943 I married in 1953 and have five children At least two of my books have also been made in to movies I died in 1990 **<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;">Who am I? **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Author 2__** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">I was born in 1946 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I grew up in Africa <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I learned to write by drawing letters in the dirt and then later on chalk tablets <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My parents names are Nancy and Wilfred Gordon <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I married in 1969 and have one daughter <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I wrote my first book in 1983 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I love teaching and retired in 1996 from my job at Flinders University in South Australia <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I have written over 33 children's books <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">One of my most recent books was about sheep <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Who am I?**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Author 3**__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I was born in 1929 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I moved to Germany when I was 6 years old <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I graduated from Akademie der bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I moved back to New York in 1952 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My first book was published in 1969 and is about an insect <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I have illustrated more than 70 books <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My most recent book is about a baby bear who goes looking for his mother <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Who am I?**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Author 4__** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I was born in Ireland in 1898 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I moved to England in 1908 where I went to boarding school <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">In 1918 I went to Oxford University <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I was a professor of medieval and renaissance literature at Magdalene College <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My first books were for adults and included works on spirituality, love and science fiction <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My first book for children was published in 1950 and was set in both England and a fantasy land. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I wrote 6 more in the series <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Four of the above books have been made in to movies. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I died in 1963 on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Who am I?**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Author 5**__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I was born in 1958 in Germany <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I am sometimes called the German J.K. Rowling <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I studied at the University of Hamburg <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">After university I worked as a book illustrator and designer of board games <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">I have two children Anna and Ben <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">My first work 'Herr der Diebe' was translated into English in 2002 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The main character in 'Herr der Diebe' is based on my son <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Two of my books have been made in to movies <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Who am I?**