Literature Quiz – Children’s Books
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#1. Who is the narrator of Anna Sewel's famous story Black Beauty?
The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the horse named Black Beauty.
#2. Which fictional character lives in River Heights with her father and the housekeeper, Hannah Gruen?
Nancy Drew first appears in a book published in 1930. The books about Nancy have been ghostwritten by a number of authors under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Nancy Drew lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. Her two closest friends is Bess Marvin and George Fayne.
#3. According to the children's tale, who had an encounter with the three bears?
The Story of the Three Bears was first recorded by British author and poet Robert Southey. The most popular version of the tale tells of Goldilocks who enters the forest home of three bachelor bears whilst they are away. She sits in their chairs, eats some of their porridge, and falls asleep in one of their beds.
#4. Astrid Lindgren, who wrote the books about Pippi Longstocking, was from which country?
Pippi Longstocking is the character in a series of children’s books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
#5. Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book written by:
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton was published in 1942. It is the first book in The Famous Five series.
#6. Who wrote the books about Winnie-the-Pooh?
Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children’s poems.
#7. The Munchkins are the natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in which book?
Munchkins are characters in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
#8. In which children's tale, credited Brothers Grimm, do two children find a cottage made of gingerbread?
In the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the two children follow a beautiful white bird to a clearing in the woods, where they discover a large cottage built of gingerbread.
#9. She wrote Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods:
The Little House books were written by the American writer Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder.
The eight original books, were published by Harper and Brothers with illustrations by Helen Sewell or by Sewell and Mildred Boyle.
Wilder’s early works include: Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), The Long Winter (1940), and Little Town on the Prairie (1941).
#10. What animal is Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Aslan is the Great Lion and the main character of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series.
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Children’s Literature & Classic Fairy Tales
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There is no single or widely used definition of children’s literature. It generally spans over a wide range of works, including fairy tales, fables, fiction, poetry, or drama intended for and used by children and young people.
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is often considered the first modern children’s book, since it was the first children’s publication aimed at giving enjoyment to children.
The well-known Brothers Grimm preserved and published the traditional tales told in Germany. Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen also gathered fairy tales and created new stories in the fairy tale genre.
Later, Lewis Carroll’s fantasy, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, signaled the change in writing style for children to a more imaginative one.
In 1894, Rudyard Kipling published The Jungle Book. Beatrix Potter published The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902.
C. S. Lewis published the first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia series in 1950, and J. R. R. Tolkien, the “father” of modern fantasy literature, wrote The Lord of the Rings a few years later.
A list of the Best Children’s Books
This list of the best children’s books have been presented by Penguin Books
1. Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926)
2. Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proysen (1956)
3. A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley (1939)
4. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
6. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1943)
7. The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
8. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
9. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (1968)
10. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)
11. Grimms’ Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm (1812)
12. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2002)
13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
14. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
15. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1863)
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