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Picture Book Questions for kids

100

1. Which hungry insect spends an entire week eating through various foods like plums, pickles, and chocolate cake before turning into a butterfly?

The hungry caterpillar

200

1. What is the name of the elephant who has a best friend named Piggie?

Gerald

300

1. In The Day the Crayons Quit, which color crayon is tired of coloring fire engines and apples?

Red

400

1. What does the Old Lady swallow first in the famous rhyming book (before the spider and the bird)?

a fly

500

1. In the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, what is the one thing the Pigeon really wants to do?

Drive the bus!

More picture book questions for kids!

100

1. What kind of animal is Paddington, who loves marmalade sandwiches and comes from "Darkest Peru"?

a bear

200

1. In Click, Clack, Moo, what do the cows find in the barn that they use to type notes to Farmer Brown?

a typewriter

300

1. What is the name of the little engine who kept saying, "I think I can, I think I can"?

The little engine that could

400

1. In the book 

   Where the Wild Things Are

   , what is the name of the main character who travels to an island after being sent to bed without supper?

Max

500

1. What color is the crayon that a little boy named Harold uses to draw his own world and a moon to follow him?

purple

Picture book questions for grown ups

100

In the original 1963 draft of 

Where the Wild Things Are

 by Maurice Sendak, what animal was Max originally supposed to encounter instead of "Wild Things"? 

Sendak realized he couldn't draw horses well, so he drew "Wild Things" (based on his "crazy" relatives) instead.

200

Dr. Seuss wrote 

Green Eggs and Ham

 after his editor, Bennett Cerf, bet him $50 that he couldn't write a book using only how many unique words? 

50 words. (He succeeded, and Cerf reportedly never paid up!)

300

Before becoming a famous author and illustrator of 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

, which scientific field was Beatrix Potter an expert in, even writing a research paper on the germination of spores? 

Mycology

400

1. Before creating the colorful world of 

   The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle was a 15-year-old in Germany who was conscripted to perform what task for the war effort?

digging trenches

500

1. In Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Alexander constantly says he wants to move to Australia. In the 

   Australian version of the book, what location does he want to move to instead? 

Timbuktu

Animal groups for kids

100

Lions

Pride

200

wolves

pack

300

fish

school

400

bees

swarm

500

ants

a colony

Animal groups for grown ups

100

zebras

zeal

200

vultures

a venue

300

storks

a mustering

400

stingrays

a fever

500

giraffes

a tower