Literature Quiz – Children’s Books

Literature Children Books

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In which children's tale, credited Brothers Grimm, do two children find a cottage made of gingerbread?

A) Brother and Sister

B) Hansel and Gretel

C) The Candy House

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.

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What animal is Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia.

A) A tiger

B) A lion

C) A snake

Aslan is the Great Lion and the main character of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series.

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According to the children's tale, who had an encounter with the three bears?

A) Little Red Riding Hood

B) Snow White

C) Goldilocks

British author and poet Robert Southey first recorded the Story of the Three Bears. The most popular version of the tale tells of Goldilocks, who enters the forest home of three bachelor bears while they are away. She sits in their chairs, eats some of their porridge, and falls asleep in one of their beds.

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Who is the narrator of Anna Sewel's famous story Black Beauty?

A) A horse

B) A princess

C) A retired family doctor

The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir by the horse named Black Beauty.

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She wrote Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods:

A) Beatrix Potter

B) Laura Ingalls Wilder

C) Enid Blyton

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).

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The Munchkins are the natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in which book?

A) The Chronicles of Narnia by author C. S. Lewis

B) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

C) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Munchkins are characters in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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Astrid Lindgren, who wrote the books about Pippi Longstocking, was from which country?

A) Canada

B) Sweden

C) Germany

Pippi Longstocking is the character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

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Who wrote the books about Winnie-the-Pooh?

A) Jonathan Swift

B) A.A. Milne

C) Walt Disney

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.

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Which fictional character lives in River Heights with her father and the housekeeper, Hannah Gruen?

A) Ginny Gordon

B) Nance Drew

C) Veronica Mars

Nancy Drew first appears in a book published in 1930. Several authors ghostwrote the books about Nancy 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 are Bess Marvin and George Fayne.

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Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book written by:

A) Robert Louis Stevenson

B) Enid Blyton

C) C.S. Lewis

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton was published in 1942. It is the first book in The Famous Five series.

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Children’s Books and Literature

Children’s Literature & Classic Fairy Tales

This literature quiz has ten easy questions about literature for children and teenagers.

There is no single or widely used definition of children’s literature. It spans many 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

Penguin Books has presented this list of the best children’s books all time.

  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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