Caldecott House: A Literary Scavenger Hunt
1) In what book do a little girl and her father go owling, watching and listening for the signs that say a great horned owl is nearby?
2) In what book do we wonder where hummingbirds go in a hurricane?
3) Who whisks his grandchildren up to the attic where he performs an exciting vaudeville routine?
4) In what story did a rice dumpling roll across the table, fall to the floor, and roll until it rolled down a hole?
5) Name the English illustrator who has an award for children’s picture books established in his honor. He also pained an adorable mutt who bit a kind and gentle man.
6) Name the character who was almost hit by a bicycle, and said, “This is no place for babies with all those horrid things rushing about. We’ll have to look somewhere else.”
7) In what book does a boy put a snowball in his pocket for the next day and feel sad later when he discovers it is gone?
8) What was the first gift of Christmas and to whom was it given in the Christmas story of the boy who was sure there was a Santa Claus?
9) Name the fairytale about a longhaired girl who was locked in a tower.
10)Who didn’t like living in the city, and at night used to dream of the country and field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight?
11) The opening lines of this award winner describe something. What is it that is: “High and long, think and strong, wide and stark?”
12) What little girl’s life was saved by a dog when she fell into the river?
13) Who chose a big shining gold start for a piñata and wouldn’t even watch the children trying to break it at her posada, because she did not want it broken?
14) In which book do three little pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow who jumped over the moon, and a dragon? And they all lived happily ever after.
15) What book tells the story of a young French aerialist, Philippe Petit, who threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and spent almost an hour walking, dancing, and performing tricks a quarter of a mile in the sky?
16) Who was sent to bed without eating anything because he told his mother, “I’ll eat you up?”
17) Whose police dog Gloria’s irreverent acrobatics contrast with his straight-laced safety tips to school audiences?
18) In which book does Kitten mistake the full moon for a bowl of milk and end up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it? Poor Kitten! Lucky Kitten!
19) In what tender book about a friendly zookeeper does a penguin require socks to keep its feet warm?
20) Who is the orphan, clock keeper, and thief who lives in the walls of a busy Paris
train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity?
21) Name the feisty, black-eared dog who plays with a beloved red ball before a climactic encounter with another dog in the park?
22)In which book does a tiny fish wearing a blue hat not worry because that big fish won’t wake up for a long time? And when he does, he probably won’t know what
happened.
2) In what book do we wonder where hummingbirds go in a hurricane?
3) Who whisks his grandchildren up to the attic where he performs an exciting vaudeville routine?
4) In what story did a rice dumpling roll across the table, fall to the floor, and roll until it rolled down a hole?
5) Name the English illustrator who has an award for children’s picture books established in his honor. He also pained an adorable mutt who bit a kind and gentle man.
6) Name the character who was almost hit by a bicycle, and said, “This is no place for babies with all those horrid things rushing about. We’ll have to look somewhere else.”
7) In what book does a boy put a snowball in his pocket for the next day and feel sad later when he discovers it is gone?
8) What was the first gift of Christmas and to whom was it given in the Christmas story of the boy who was sure there was a Santa Claus?
9) Name the fairytale about a longhaired girl who was locked in a tower.
10)Who didn’t like living in the city, and at night used to dream of the country and field of daisies and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight?
11) The opening lines of this award winner describe something. What is it that is: “High and long, think and strong, wide and stark?”
12) What little girl’s life was saved by a dog when she fell into the river?
13) Who chose a big shining gold start for a piñata and wouldn’t even watch the children trying to break it at her posada, because she did not want it broken?
14) In which book do three little pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow who jumped over the moon, and a dragon? And they all lived happily ever after.
15) What book tells the story of a young French aerialist, Philippe Petit, who threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and spent almost an hour walking, dancing, and performing tricks a quarter of a mile in the sky?
16) Who was sent to bed without eating anything because he told his mother, “I’ll eat you up?”
17) Whose police dog Gloria’s irreverent acrobatics contrast with his straight-laced safety tips to school audiences?
18) In which book does Kitten mistake the full moon for a bowl of milk and end up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it? Poor Kitten! Lucky Kitten!
19) In what tender book about a friendly zookeeper does a penguin require socks to keep its feet warm?
20) Who is the orphan, clock keeper, and thief who lives in the walls of a busy Paris
train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity?
21) Name the feisty, black-eared dog who plays with a beloved red ball before a climactic encounter with another dog in the park?
22)In which book does a tiny fish wearing a blue hat not worry because that big fish won’t wake up for a long time? And when he does, he probably won’t know what
happened.