From: mimi@apollo.hp.com (Mimi Wellington)
Subject: AUGUST KIDS' BOOK QUIZ--ANSWERS
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:30:35 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

Below are the answers to the August quiz.

Remember:  October's quiz will have the theme
                        
                        Witches, Warlocks, and Wizards;
                        Ghosts, Goblins, and Ghouls
                                          
PLEASE SEND ME QUOTES TO USE IN THIS QUIZ!  (Deadline:  Sept. 15)

                                        --Mimi Wellington
                                          mimi@apollo.hp.com

**************************AUGUST KIDS' BOOK QUIZ******************************

1.  "Help!" called out the Superintendent of the Water Department.
    "There's a break in the water main somewhere in North Geoppolis."
    
    --from _Katy and the Big Snow_,
      by Virginia Lee Burton
                                  
    
2.  One morning after breakfast Tom was fooling around with his chemistry
    set and he invented anti-sticky.
    
    Then he fooled around with anti-sticky and jam and springs and
    wheels and connecting-rods and he made a two-seater jam-powered frog.
    
    --from _A Near Thing for Captain Najork_,
      by Russell Hoban

      [This isn't a really well-known book, but I liked these lines so much
      that I had to put them in a quiz.  The misc.kids FAQ file on books
      contains an enthusiastic recommendation for Russell Hoban; just from
      the bit I've read of him, I'd second the recommendation.]
    
    
3.  Marvin Seeley had been trying, on the afternoon of March 15th, to
    take a picture of a pickle barrel which stood in front of a grocery store on
    17th street.  Marvin had been annoyed to have a man go flying into the barrel
    at the very instant he snapped the picture.  However, when the picture was
    developed, the daffodils came out so nicely that Marvin sent the picture to
    a magazine that was having a contest.
    
    --from _The Pushcart War_. Chapter 2: "The Blow-up of Marvin Seeley's Picture,"
      by Jean Merrill                                                          
    
    
4.  I'm not the milk and the milk's not me!  I'm Mickey!
    
    --from _In the Night Kitchen_,
      by Maurice Sendak

      [A book banned in some communities because of its anatomically correct
      drawings of Mickey.]
      
    
5.  Once there was a boy called Poo-Poo.  His other names were HAROLD
    HEAVYSIDE BROWN, and it might be just as well to remember them.  On
    Saturday morning Poo-Poo (what were his other names?) was wondering
    what to do, because all his friends were doing something else.
    
    --from _Poo-Poo and the Dragons_, Chapter 1, 
      by C. S. Forester       

      [Yes, this is the same C. S. Forester who wrote the Horatio Hornblower
      books and _The African Queen_.  I thought it was cute that Poo-Poo's
      dragon gets named Horatio Heavyside Dragon (I love the Hornblower
      books).  A member of this month's winning team remarked that _Poo Poo
      and the Dragons_ was her favorite book of all time (even better than 
      Oz).]
    

6.  All night long their nets they threw
       To the stars in the twinkling foam,--
    Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
       Bringing the fishermen home...
    
    --from "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,"
      by Eugene Field
    

7.  The little elephant said, "I don't know what kind of animal I am. I
    live all alone in the jungle.  I dance and I kick--and I call myself
    Sooki.  It's a good-sounding name, and it fits me, don't you think?"
    
    --from _The Saggy Baggy Elephant_,
      by K. &  B. Jackson

      [A Little Golden Book classic.]
    

8.  And far above, upon a hill beyond the Tennis Court,
    The Rhino and the Zebra sat in silence, deep in thought.
    They studied every Rook and Pawn, each King and Queen and Knight,
    Then both agreed it looked too hard, and quit without a fight.
    
    --from _The Eleventh Hour-A Curious Mystery_,
      by Graeme Base     

    
9.  Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time
    my brother and I were alone upon the island.  For each one that came
    and went I cut a mark in a pole beside the door of my house.  There
    were many marks, from the roof to the floor.  But after that summer I 
    did not cut them any more.  The passing of the moons now had come to
    mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the 
    year.  The last year I did not count those.
    
    --from _The Island of the Blue Dolphins_, Chapter 25,
      by Scott O'Dell

      [It was hard to find "the perfect quote" from this book, because
      it's the sum of the book that makes it so good.  The language is
      very fine, but finding a passage that would be recognizable and
      would also entice people to read the book was difficult.  It's a
      fine book--put it on your list!]
    
    
10. I was never going to talk to God again.  What did he want from me
    anyway?  I was through with him and his religions!  And I was never
    going to set foot in the Y or the Jewish Community Center.
    
    --from _Are You There, God?  It's Me, Margaret_, Chapter 21,
      by Judy Blume
    

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