Last month, when the weather in England was fairly cool and damp (remember that?) I set a quiz of children’s book titles. And I promised you the answers in this month’s blog. So, for anyone who is still stuck on one or two, here are the answers:
2 T T of J P by B P The Tale of Jemima
Puddle-duck by Beatrix Potter
3 F G to K I by E B Five Go to Kirrin
Island by Enid Blyton
4 T S G by F H B The Secret
Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5 H by J S Heidi by Johanna Spyri
6 F C and I by E N Five Children and It
by E Nesbit
7 T W in T W by K G The Wind in the
Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8 B S by N S Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
9 H by L S Holes by Louis Sachar
10 J E by C B Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11 T H at P C by A A
M The House at
Pooh Corner by A A Milne
12 T T W C to T by J K
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
13 A of G G by L M M Anne of Green
Gables by L M Montgomery
14 M by F C B
Millions
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
15 J W by R C Just William by Richman Crompton
16 C of T N F by C M Children of the New
Forest by Captain Marryat
17 L W by L M A Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
18 W K D by S C
What Katy Did
by Susan Coolidge
19 H P and T P S by J K R
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling
20 T U D by H C A
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
21 T M G by P P
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
22 T L T T and T W by
C S L The Lion,
The Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
23 G M T by M M Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
24 T V H C by E C
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
25 J S S by R K
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
So how did you all do? Did you remember some books you’d long since forgotten about? Did you dive back to your bookshelves and find an old copy of a childhood favourite? Did you immediately sit down and start reading it all over again?
I’ve also been discovering books I’d
forgotten about – only not on my bookshelf, but on my Kindle! When I first had my Kindle I carefully noted
down in a notebook every ebook I downloaded – because, as everyone who has one
knows, all your downloaded books appear as a list in “Your Library”, but the
more you add, the longer your list becomes. And after a while you have to really search
for an ebook you know you’ve got somewhere… except that only works when you know exactly what you're looking for!
Which of course is where my notebook comes in. But because I’ve become rather remiss of late
in writing down every single book as I added it, and because I've now got a lot of books on my Kindle, I couldn’t remember what I’d already
got. So eventually last weekend I
started on the mammoth task of making a new list of every book in my “Library” –
this time in a new notebook with margins, in which to put a tick when I’ve read and
deleted them.
Readers, it took a very long time, and used up two new gel pens,
but at last I finished it. And surprise –
I discovered several books and favourite authors that had completely slipped my
mind of late, and am now really looking forward to reading!
And I realised how well this discovery fitted in with the
answers to last month’s quiz: notably, how good it is to be reminded of books
you’d forgotten about!
3 comments:
What a great quiz, Lynne. Really tested the old grey literary cells! Thank you for putting so much energy into both posts.
Thanks, Penny - glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks again Lynne. We really enjoyed it too.
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