FAMOUS FIRST LINES QUIZ:
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNERS
The first lines of ten Caldecott-winning picture books are listed below. For each one, give yourself five points if you can identify the title of the book from which it comes and an additional five points if you can identify the illustrator and/or author without peeking at the help page. If you need to use the help page, give yourself a total of five points for each correct question.
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1. "My grandfather was a young man when he left his home in Japan."
2. "It was late one winter night, long past my bedtime, when Pa and I went owling."
3. "Al, a nice man, a quiet man, lived in one room on the West Side with his faithful dog, Eddie."
4. "Once, long ago, there was a woman who lived all alone in the county with her three children, Shang, Tao, and Paotze."
5. "One hundred years ago in Paris, when theaters and music halls drew traveling players from all over the world, the best place to stay was at the widow Gāteau's, a boardinghouse on English Street."
6. "One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole."
7. "The people were always moving from place to place following the herds of buffalo."
8. "There are good things about being President and there are bad things about being president."
9. "The King and Queen
Invited me
To come to their house
On Sunday for tea."
10. "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines."
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Now add up your total score, then click here to see how you did.
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Caldecott Award winners, click here.
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created 5/01/02; last updated 07/22/03