Kids Quiz: Animals in Books: 10 Questions | Kid Lit General

Answer: Horton

In Dr. Seuss' story "Horton Hears a Who!", the elephant Horton heard a voice from a speck of dust. Incredibly the dust was Whoville, the home town of a race of little creatures named Whos. While Horton's fellows tried to get rid of that dust, he promised to protect the life of the Whos.
Dr. Seuss (real name Theodore Geisel) wrote several books for kids. "Horton Hatches an Egg" introduced the elephant, while the best known book by Dr. Seuss was "The Cat in the Hat".
The other choices were also elephants from literature.
Hathi was an elephant in "The Jungle Book", leading his herd. Dumbo was an elephant that learned to fly. Jean de Brunhoff wrote about Babar, the elephant who stayed a while in a big city before returning to the jungle.

Answer: Timmy

The main characters were Julian, his younger brother Dick, their youngest sister Ann, their cousin Georgina (who preferred to be called George) and George's dog Timmy.
In the first book, "Five on a Treasure Island", these five friends spent the holidays at George's place, near an island on which a ship was wrecked. The ship was said to carry a lot of gold, and the five found a map indicating the probable hiding place of the gold. But then an antique dealer showed up, probably looking for the gold too...
Enid Blyton wrote 21 books about the Famous Five. She also wrote several other books for children.

Answer: Reepicheep

The English author C.S. Lewis published seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series. "Prince Caspian" was published as the second instalment. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie had visited the magical world of Narnia in the previous book, and now once again they were transported to Narnia. There they got involved in the civil war between the evil King Miraz and the rightful heir to the throne, Prince Caspian. Both sides were helped by magical creatures; for instance Reepicheep, the leader of the Talking Mice, came to help our friends.
Reepicheep also appeared in the next book "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and in the last book "The Final Battle".
Stuart Little and Geronimo Stilton were talking mice from books that bear their name. The Italian Elisabetta Dami wrote about the Stiltons, and the American E.B. White introduced us to Stuart Little.
Roquefort was the mouse in the Disney movie "The Aristocats". I remember that back in 1970 the story of the movie was also published as a book for six to eight year old children. Richard Sherman, the songwriter for the movie, published this book.

Answer: A deer

"Bambi: A Life in the Woods" was first published in 1923 in Germany. The central character was a young deer, growing up with other deer and threatened by hunters. The author was Felix Salten from Austria.
Walt Disney added the characters of Thumper (a rabbit) and Flower (a skunk) for the animated movie, as well as various other unnamed animals such as a butterfly, a pheasant and a chipmunk.

Answer: Chanticleer

"Reynard the Fox" is a set of medieval tales, that appeared in French, Dutch, German and English. Most characters bear similar names in all these tales. The tales all referred to a kingdom where all the animals lived in peace with another, until Reynard the fox was accused of various crimes. Chanticleer the rooster showed the dead body of one of his wives, accusing Reynard of having killed the chicken. Bruin the bear was sent to summon Reynard to appear in court, but Reynard tricked him and went home again. Likewise Tybalt the cat was sent to summon Reynard, and once more Reynard tricked the messenger.

When finally Reynard was charged with murder and sentenced to death, he tricked Noble and the others into a treasure hunt.

Answer: Minoes

"Minoes" was written by the Dutch Annie M.G. Schmidt. A young cat magically was transformed into a young woman (about 18 years old), who fell in love with a reporter for the local newspaper. Minoes (the cat turned into a gorgeous woman) talked with fellow cats and thus uncovered various stories, which her friend then published in the newspaper.
Puss in Boots was one of the fairy tales by the brothers Grimm. This male cat befriended a miller's son and convinced the king that the miller's son was the Marquis of Carabas.
Lucinda was the black talking cat in the TV series "Bewitched". She stayed a cat all the time.
Cosmic Creepers was the cat in "The Magic Bedknob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks", two books that were combined into the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks".

Answer: Serpent

"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling is a set of stories set in and around India, although one story is set in the Bering Sea near Russia. Kaa was a python, known to hypnotise all kind of other creatures. When Mowgli (the main character: a young boy) was kidnapped by the monkeys, Kaa came to help set him free.
The Disney movie made Kaa one of the villains, which does not quite fit with the book. But in the movie too, Kaa hypnotised the other animals.
One of the wolves named in "The Jungle Book" was Akela, head of the wolf pack that raised Mowgli.
The bear in "The Jungle Book" was Baloo, who taught Mowgli the law of the jungle.
Shere Khan was the tiger in "The Jungle Book". He was the sworn enemy of Mowgli.

Answer: The cook

"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson introduced us to Jim Hawkins, the son of an inn keeping family. When an old sailor named Billy Bones boasted at the inn about a hidden pirate's treasure, a blind beggar named David Pew cursed Billy and attacked the inn.

In the following fight, Billy Bones and David Pew were killed, and Jim Hawkins found in Billy's possessions a map which should indicate the location of a treasure. Jim convinced Doctor David Livesey to send a ship to the island, hoping to retrieve the treasure.

Some of the members in Dr. Livesey's crew were the carpenter Abraham Grey and the one-legged cook Long John Silver, owner of the parrot Captain Flint. Soon Jim Hawkins overheard a conversation which showed him that most of the crew were former companions of the pirate who hid the treasure...

Answer: Black Beauty

"Black Beauty" was a book written by the British Anna Sewell. The story was told by the horse mentioned in the title. Black Beauty (the horse) told his life: from a very handsome horse towing the carriage of a Lord and Lady to less honourable occupations in the service of more wicked persons and back to three lovely ladies.
Clifford was a big red dog, according to the book by the American writer Norman Bridwell.
The British A.A. Milne told the story of the bear Winnie the Pooh and his companions, among whom were Tigger (a tiger), Eeyore (a donkey) and Piglet (a little pig).
In the theatre play "Bell, Book and Candle" and the movie based upon this play, Pyewacket was the pet cat of a witch called Gillian.

Answer: Hazel

"Watership Down" told the story of a large group of rabbits living in a warren. When one of them (Fiver) foretold the destruction of the warren, Hazel took about a dozen other rabbits with him in search of a new home. But on their way they encountered many dangers...
Richard Adams would continue to write books where the story is told by an animal: "Shardik" (a bear); "The Plague Dogs"; "The Ship's Cat".
Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail were the three sisters to Peter Rabbit, the title person in the books by Beatrix Potter.