The Puzzler: If You Liked That Author...

Most avid readers will find a book they like and then explore more books by the same author. Here are images from 4 books for early readers, each written by an author listed in our feature article above. Can you name the authors? Bonus points for the names of these great books!




Answers next month.



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LAST ISSUE'S PUZZLER: Unusual Musical Instruments, with ANSWER
 

Match each of the six rare and unusual musical instruments in the photos to its name on the list below. Extra credit: Name the famous American inventor in the photo at upper left.

1. Hurdy Gurdy
2. Koto 
3. Moog Synthesizer
4. Glass Armonica
5. Harmonium
6. Viol de Gamba

Do you know which instrument is which?

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ANSWERS: 

1. Hurdy Gurdy: Image F. European folk instrument. A hand-cranked rosined wheel rubs against strings. A keyboard plus drone strings produce a sound similar to bagpipes.
2. Koto: Image D, Traditional musical instrument with 13 strings. The national instrument of Japan.
3. Moog Synthesizer: Image B. Dr. Robert Moog's invention, made possible by the transistor. The first synthesizer, and one of the distinctive sounds of the 1960s.
4. Glass Armonica: Image A. Largely the invention of a certain Revolutionary-period American leader*, this device is played with wet fingers rubbing on a series of spinning glass bowls.
5. Harmonium: Image E. Predates the pump organ, associated with the music of India.
6. Viol de Gamba: Image C. An early cousin to the cello, this stringed and bowed instrument has frets on the fingerboard like a guitar.

* BONUS: The gentleman playing the Glass Armonica is its inventor, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin is best know for his political contributions to the founding of the United States, but he was also a prolific inventor, thinking up the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, and Franklin stove among many other practical contrivances, all of which he shared freely.