Children'S And Young Adult Literature Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 7 entries checked · 4 flagged · 9 issues confirmed · 4 corrected · 5 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

P. L. Travers — The entry states that Travers was born 'at her family's home above a bank,' but the family home was not above the bank; they lived in a separate house.

P. L. Travers — The entry says she 'worked briefly as a professional actress... taking the stage name 'Pamela Lyndon Travers' (or 'P. L. Travers'),' but she did not use 'P. L. Travers' as a stage name; that pen name came later for her writing.

Rick Riordan — Riordan's master's degree in Gaelic literature from University College Cork was completed in 2020, not 2021.

Rick Riordan — Riordan married Rebecca 'Becky' Klahn in 1985, but their shared birthday is not on the same date; Riordan's birthday is June 5, and Becky's birthday is a different date (the claim that they married on their shared birthday is unverified and likely incorrect ba

R. L. Stine — The claim that Goosebumps is 'the second-best-selling book series in history' is a factual overstatement, as it is not consistently supported by established canon (e.g., Harry Potter and other series often hold higher positions).

R. L. Stine — The entry omits that Stine was the editor of Bananas, not the sole creator; he was hired to edit it after it was conceived by Scholastic.

Roger Hargreaves — The Timbuctoo series comprised the first twelve of a series of 25 books. (Correction: The Timbuctoo series consisted of 12 books in total, not 25; there was no planned 25-book series.)

Roger Hargreaves — The 1978 record lists works by seventeen other children's authors and illustrators, including Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Rumer Godden, and Rosemary Sutcliff. (Correction: This claim is vague and unverifiable; there is no established '1978 record' listing exactly

Open data

All content is fetchable as JSON at /data/content/ · llms.txt · sitemap

Corrections

Spotted an error? Suggest an edit — reader reports go straight into the audit queue.

← back to Children'S And Young Adult Literature