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A fact from Kate Clark (writer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kate Clark (writer).

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 11:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Cover of A Southern Cross Fairy Tale (1891) by Kate Clark

... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale (1891) (pictured), which used northern hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand? Source: "A southern cross fairy tale, which she partly illustrated, was published in London in 1891. A Christmas story for children, it attempted to translate northern hemisphere Christmas folklore to New Zealand while instructing children about the colony's natural features and native creatures." (her DNZB bio)
- ALT1:... that Kate Clark wrote A Southern Cross Fairy Tale (1891) (pictured) for the benefit of New Zealand children "with English speech and English hearts, to whom the Yule log at Christmas is unmeaning and the snows unknown"? Source: "But there are, growing up under the Southern Cross, generations of children, with English speech and English hearts, to whom the Yule-log at Christmas is un-meaning and the snow unknown. The little story which follows is written for such children as these ..." (the preface to the book)

Reviewed: This is my second DYK nomination, so no QPQ is required.
Comment: Thanks in advance, and grateful for any feedback; I think the cover (which is public domain) is quite interesting in itself but am not 100% sure the image really works at the small size.

Created by Chocmilk03 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:35, 25 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, and properly sourced. QPQ not needed. Earwig found nothing even resembling inappropriate copying. I don't think the picture is a good choice for DYK; it's appropriately licensed, but not really legible or informative at DYK image sizes. Main hook is appropriate for DYK; accepting the offline source for the most closely-matching article sentence (McCallum) AGF. I think it is a much better hook than ALT1; I didn't get much of interest from the long quote. Good to go with main hook. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:55, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@David Eppstein: Thanks heaps! Makes sense re picture, and will be happy to see the main hook up. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 10:26, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]