Children's books quiz
Checked on 11 November 2026
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Who wrote The Cat in the Hat?
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The answer is Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss published The Cat in the Hat in 1957, and it became one of his best-loved rhyming books.
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Who wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
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The answer is Beatrix Potter.
Beatrix Potter both wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published in 1902.
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Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
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The answer is Lewis Carroll.
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and followed it with Through the Looking-Glass.
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In which Roald Dahl book does Charlie Bucket visit Willy Wonka's factory?
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The answer is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, from 1964, follows young Charlie Bucket inside Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
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In Where the Wild Things Are, what is the name of the boy in the wolf suit?
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The answer is Max.
Maurice Sendak's story follows Max, a mischievous boy in a wolf suit who sails off to where the Wild Things are.
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Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends live in which forest?
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The answer is The Hundred Acre Wood.
The Pooh stories are set in the Hundred Acre Wood, which is based on Ashdown Forest in England.
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Roald Dahl's 1961 book about a boy named James is called James and the Giant what?
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The answer is Peach.
Roald Dahl published James and the Giant Peach in 1961, three years before Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Dr. Seuss was a pen name. What was the writer's real name?
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The answer is Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904.
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Lewis Carroll was a pen name. What was the writer's real name?
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The answer is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician at Oxford, wrote his famous children's books as Lewis Carroll.
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Where the Wild Things Are won which American award for picture book illustration in 1964?
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The answer is The Caldecott Medal.
Maurice Sendak's book received the Caldecott Medal in 1964 as the most distinguished American picture book of the year before.