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Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.That was a hard one. Chris had to say very slowly.

Ellen Raskin

Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.That was a hard one. Chris had to say very slowly.

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About Ellen Raskin

Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) 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.
In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily-U.S. audience.