Children's Books
Take a look, it's in a book with this trivia game featuring beloved children's books and authors.
15 questions · Published March 7, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. On which PBS series did host LeVar Burton introduce children to the wonder and power of books for nearly three decades?
According to the show's iconic theme song, "Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading Rainbow"; LeVar Burton hosted the series from 1983 to 2009.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which beloved children's author won a Grammy Award in 1970 for writing the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue"?
Shel Silverstein's many classic children's books include "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) and "The Giving Tree" (1964).
He was also an accomplished songwriter, winning a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1970 for Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue."
- Multiple Choice
3. Author Beverly Cleary's cherished characters sisters Beezus and Ramona Quimby first appear in her novel "Henry _____________."
The beloved sisters were first introduced as minor characters in the 1950 novel "Henry Huggins."
In fact, Ramona was a throwaway character only included to explain why her big sister, Beatrice, was called Beezus.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which author got the idea for "Charlotte's Web" from watching a spider spinning a web in his barn?
E.B. White was inspired to write the beloved children's classic "Charlotte's Web" (1952) after seeing a spider spinning a web in the barn of his farm in Maine.
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5. Which beloved children's book did authors H.A. and Margaret Rey smuggle out of Paris in 1940 after the Nazi occupation?
H.A. and Margaret Rey fled Paris on two self-made bicycles in June 1940. After several months spent in Spain and Brazil, they finally made it to America, where a friend in book publishing printed the first edition of "Curious George," which has been in continuous publication since 1941.
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