From: mimi@apollo.hp.com (Mimi Wellington)
Subject: SEPTEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ--ANSWERS
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:36:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

As I predicted, this was a low-scoring quiz.  Thanks to all players!

Tomorrow I'll post a double-length, Halloweeney "theme" quiz.  Stay tuned...

*************************** SEPTEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ **************************

1.  One evening, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to 
    go for a walk in the moonlight.  There wasn't any moon, and Harold
    needed a moon for a walk in the moonlight.
    
    --from _Harold and the Purple Crayon_,
      by Crockett Johnson

    
2.  It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is
    eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity.  The motto of all the mongoose
    family is, "Run and find out"...
    
    --from _The Jungle Book_, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,"
      by Rudyard Kipling

      [This is my absolute favorite part of _The Jungle Book_.]

    
3.  Moving in darkness.
    Moving in daylight.
    Going, going...
    gone.
    
    --from _Freight Train_,
      by Donald Crews
    
    
4.  He picked up a paper napkin from the table and folded it into
    the shape of a crane.  "You have only to clap your hands," he
    said, "and this bird will come to life and dance for you.  Take it 
    and enjoy it while it is with you."  With these words the stranger
    left.             
    
    --from _The Paper Crane_,
      by Molly Bang

      [I don't think anyone got this quote.  It's a lovely book.  I
      prefer it to Molly Bang's award winning _Ten, Nine, Eight_.]
    
    
5.  One day [she] was picking up corn in the rickyard when--whack!--an acorn
    hit her upon the head.  "Goodness gracious me!" [she said].  "The sky's
    a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king."
    
    --from "Henny Penny" (or "Chicken Little"), this version from _English Fairy Tales_,
      retold by Flora Annie Steel
    
    
6.  Anastasia had a small pink wart in the middle of her left thumb.  She
    found her wart very pleasing.  It had appeared quite by surprise, shortly
    after her tenth birthday, on a morning when nothing else interesting was
    happening, and it was the first wart she had ever had, or even seen.
    
    "It's the loveliest color I've ever seen in a wart," her mother, who had
    seen others, said with admiration.
    
    --from _Anastasia Krupnick_, Chapter 1,
      by Lois Lowry                                               

      [Here's one of those books from which I had a terrible time pulling a
      quote.  The entire book is great, and every passage was so nice that
      I couldn't find good ending places.]
    
    
7.  There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill--
    nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, 
    cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo--
    but it was a special place.
    
    --from _Roxaboxen_,
      by Alice McLerran                   

      [I don't think anyone got this one.  Barbara Cooney did the 
      illustrations.]
    
    
8.  Sometimes on weekends, they'd be in the elevator when I got on.  I'd
    act as if they weren't there.  I had to get off the elevator before
    they did because I lived on the second floor, and they lived on the
    sixth.  Before I'd get off the elevator, I'd take my fists and, fast
    and furious, I'd push every floor button just the second before I got
    out.
    
    --from _Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth_
      by E. L. Konigsburg
    
    
9.  "We want a Wail," said the Phoenix.  "And we shall accept nothing but the
    best and loudest you have."
    
    "Ah, a Banshee's Wail, is it?" cried the hag. "You've come to the right
    shop, dearies, to be sure.  Now, let me see ..."
    
    Fifteen minutes later the Banshee came out with the box, plugging up the
    hole in its side with a bit of wax. "Wssht!" she gasped, wiping her brow with
    the sleeve of her Mother Hubbard.  "Ah, dearies, that was the effort of me
    life! 'Tis a Wail to make one burst with pride, though I do say it meself.
    Thirteen minutes long by the clock, with a range of ten octaves! 'Twould
    frighten Old Nick himself!"
    
    --from _David and the Phoenix_, Chapter 8, "David Visits a Banshee"
      by Edward Ormondroyd                         
    
    
10. F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.
    
    --from _The Gashelycrumb Tinies; or, After the Outing_, 
      by Edward Gorey

      [Several people complained that this isn't a kids' book.  Well...I
      read it as a teenager, and it's clearly a parody of children's 
      alphabet books.  And I just liked the quote.  What can I say? It's
      my quiz...for now!]
              

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