From: riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle)
Subject: JANUARY KIDS' BOOK QUIZ
Followup-To: riggle@mv.us.adobe.com
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:24:12 GMT

I tried to make this quiz a little easier, so you wouldn't have to
think too much after the holidays.  :-)  

Quiz rules :  you get a point for the author, a point for
the book/story/poem, and an extra point for more specific
identifications in such cases as chapter books and collections
of stories or poems.  I try to take quotes from fairly well-
known books, but I'm guilty of throwing in really great quotes
from little-known books.  

Please feel free to look up the quotes, ask friends, form teams,
whatever.  The basic rule is to enjoy yourself.

This month's quiz contributors are Kate Dudding, Danielle and Steve
Monson, Mimi Wellington and Barbara Vivier.

Remember:  quiz contributors get credit for accurate answers to their
own contributions.  So don't be shy!  Send me quotes!

EMAIL your answers to me and I'll tell you your score.  I'll
post answers at the end of the month.  I'll repost the quiz
mid-month, in case you miss it first time 'round.

						Kathie Riggle
						riggle@mv.us.adobe.com


*************************** JANUARY KIDS' BOOK QUIZ ***********************

1.  Sometimes they're good little piggies, but not at bedtime.  That's
    when they skip down my tummy, dance on my toes, then run away and
    hide.  So...I put them together, all in a row, for two fat kisses,
    two smart kisses, two long kisses, two silly kisses, and two wee
    kisses goodnight.


2.  "Okay, Alf," Mert said.  "Find your card."

    Alf looked.

    "Wow!" he said, "It's gone!"

    "Turn around," Mert said.  "Slowly."

    Alf turned around slowly. "Look!" Aunt Ida cried.
    "It's stuck on his behind!"

    Alf looked.

    The queen of hearts was stuck on his behind.


3.  "Will you draw something just for me?" asked the man.  "Like a
    pirate's treature chest filled with gold coins?"

    "That's easy! said Moony, and with a few quick strokes of his
    crayon it was done.

    The man picked up the drawing and when he did, the treasure chest
    slid off the paper and landed in his lap!

    Gold coins spilled out of the chest and rolled down the sidewalk,
    attracting a large crowd.


4.  Puss was so terrified at seeing a lion right there in the room
    that he scrambled up onto the roof, which wasn't easy, because
    boots are no good for walking on tiles, and it was dangerous
    besides.  A little later, when Puss saw that the Ogre was an Ogre
    again, he came down and admitted that the lion had given him a bad
    scare.


5.   "There is one more thing you should know, " said Joy.  "Mountains
     last forever, but birds do not.  Even if I were to visit you every
     spring of my life, there might be only a few visits.  Birds do not
     live very many years."

    "It will be very sad when your visits stop," said the mountain,
    "but it would be even sadder if you fly away now and never return."


6.  Next morning Louise called for Katy after breakfast.  They started
    to walk to school.  Katy told Louise everything that had happened the
    night before.
 
    "So you see," she finished, "the gloves are magic."

    "All I know for sure," Lousie said, "is that I never heard you
    play the piano like that before."

    Kathy opened her spelling notebook and handed it to Lousie.

    "Your handwriting certainly has improved," her friend said.  

    "That was the gloves," Katy told her.  "If you don't believe me,
    try them yourself."  She reached into her pocket and brought out
    the gloves.


7.  Nor can I tell you how the charm spoke, nor whether it was the
    charm that spoke, or some presence in the charm. The children
    could not have told you, either. Indeed, they could not look at
    the charm while it was speaking, because the light was too bright.
    They looked instead at the green radiance on the faded
    Kidderminster carpet at the edge of the circle. They all felt
    very quiet, and not inclined to ask questions or fidget with their
    feet.


8.  "Children! Children!" Mrs. Banks was wringing her hands in
    despair.  "Be quiet or I shall Go Mad!"
	
    There was silence for a moment as they stared at her with
    interest.  Would she really?  They wondered.  And what would
    she be like if she did?
	

9. When he decided to move in also, the mole, the rabbit, and the
   hedgehog grumbled.  But when whey saw the owl's glinty talons, they
   quickly let him in.


10.  "You see, I had this space suit."