Who received the first Caldecott Medal?

The Koran existed first in oral form as a series of revelations recited by the prophet Muhammad (570-632), founder of Islam. His followers wrote down or committed to memory the individual surahs, or chapters, but these were not collected in authoritative form until about 650.

The full title of Oliver Twist is Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.

Sappho (b. 612 B.C.), a lyric poet whose work exists only in fragments, was called the “tenth muse” by some classical writers. Married, she lived in Lesbos and led a group of women who were devoted to music and poetry.

Maud Gonne did not marry William Butler Yeats, the poet who made the actress famous through his poems of unrequited love. In 1903, after knowing Yeats for fourteen years, Gonne married Major John MacBride, an Irish revolutionary characterized by Yeats as a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” MacBride was executed for his role in the Easter Rebellion…

Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.

Increase Mather(1639-1723) was the father of Cotton Mather(1663­1728). Both were clergymen, theologians, and prolific writers in Puritan New England.