Quote Answers 4/4

Wow! You all did really well on this quiz! Mrs. D came in first place, with 70 points... Daises was a OH SO CLOSE second with 65 points... (Since I have your e-mail addies, Jami or I will e-mail both of you and tell you what you have won).

Here are the answers:

1. "Toad, Toad," shouted Frog, "wake up. It is spring!"
"Blah," said a voice from inside the house.
"Toad! Toad!" cried Frog. "The sun is shining! The snow is melting. Wake up!"
"I am not here," said the voice.

Answer: Frog and Toad are Friends, Arnold Lobel (Jami says: I'm sorry about the confusing Toad clue...there *is* a Mr. Toad in Wind in the Willows, but the Frog and Toad series is competely different. And soooo cute!)

2. And chances are if he asks for a glass of milk, he's going to want a cookie to go with it.

Answer: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Jana says: I LOVE THIS BOOK!! It is just SO stinkin' CUTE!!!!!!!!! I wuv the wittle mousey!!!! You all MUST read this book if you haven't.
Jami says: That mouse is quite the sagacious little rodent...

3. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg. He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome.

Answer: The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen

4."Yes, I know who you are," said the baby bird.
"You are not a kitten.
You are not a hen.
You are not a dog.
You are not a cow.
You are not a boat, or a plane, or a Snort!
You are a bird, and you are my mother."

Answer: Are You My Mother?

Jami says: I love that the little birdy named the tractor "Snort!"

5. Jam on biscuits, jam on toast,
Jam is the thing that I like most
Raspberry, strawberry, gooseberry, I'm very
FOND OF JAM!

Answer: Bread and Jam for Frances, Russell Hoban

6. At breakfast Anthony found a Corvette Sting Ray car kit in his cereal box and Nick found a Junior Undercover Agent code ring in his cereal box but in my breakfast cereal box all I found was breakfast cereal.

Answer: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst

Jana says: I loved that book as a child! For some reason, when I read it, I hear my Aunt Ruth's voice...
Jami says: But does your Aunt Ruth have a beard?
*Jana giggles and says*: Only on VeggieTales!!

7. Some people care too much, I think it's called love.

Answer: Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

8. I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.

Answer: Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

9. Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him.

And it was still hot.

Answer: Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

10. In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

Answer: Madeline

Jana says: Thanks to you all, I now have that line stuck in my head.