Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Ellen Raskin

Born: March 13, 1928
Died: August 8, 1984 (aged 56)
Bio: Ellen Ermingard Raskin was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
Known for:
- The Westing Game (1978)
- Figgs & Phantoms (1974)
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) (1971)
- Nothing Ever Happens on My Block (1966)
- The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues (1975)