Authors and educators talked about the children’s book that influenced you the most at a writing conference, reports Education Week. There were shout-outs for Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby series. Novelist Walter Mosley, who’s written a young adult book 47, said: When I was 6 years old, it was Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. When I was 11, it was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, without a doubt. An