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Children’s Book Quiz Answers
Famous first lines from favorite children’s books.
Can you name the the title and author?
STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS
1. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind
and another…
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak.
2. Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg:
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG by Dr. Seuss.
3. In the great forest a little elephant is born.
THE STORY OF BABAR THE LITTLE ELEPHANT by Jean
de Brunhoff.
4. At the foot of an old, old wharf lives the cutest,
silliest little tugboat you ever saw.
LITTLE TOOT by Hardie Gramatky.
5. Oh, how Peter wished he could whistle!
WHISTLE FOR WILLIE by Ezra Jack Keats.
6. Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS BY A. WOLF
as told to Jon Scieszka.
7. Martha was very fond of making split pea soup.
GEORGE AND MARTHA by James Marshall.
8. In an old house in Paris that was covered with
vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
MADELINE by Ludwig Bemelmans.
9. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a
leaf.
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle.
10. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard were looking for a place
to live.
MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS by Robert McCloskey.
11. I am a city child I live at the Plaza.
KAY THOMPSON’S ELOISE
STORIES FOR OLDER READERS
1. Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking
care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Phillip Pullman
2. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
HOLES by Louis Sachar
3. “Where’s Papa going with that ax?”
said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
CHARLOTTE’S WEB by E. B. White
4. Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small
plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.
HATCHET by Gary Paulsen
5. Mayo Cornelius Higgins raised his arms high to
the sky and spread them wide.
M.C. HIGGINS THE GREAT by Virginia Hamilton.
6. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking
child ever seen.
THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play
town.
HARRIET THE SPY by Louise Fitzhugh
8. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privit Drive,
were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
much.
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE by
J. K. Rowling
9. Claudia knew that she could never pull off the
old-fashioned kind of running away.
FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER
by E.L. Konigsburg.
10. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump,
bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
WINNIE-THE-POOH by A.A. Milne
11. All children, except one, grow up.
PETER PAN by J.M. Barrie
12. It was a dark and stormy night.
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L’Engle
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