KIDS' CLASSICS
In this Beverly Cleary book, a mouse named Ralph rides a motorcycle.
What is The Mouse and the Motorcycle?
This book by Robert Lawson is about a family of rabbits who escape from their old warren.
What is Rabbit Hill?
This series by Donald J. Sobol features a boy detective named Leroy who solves mysteries.
What is the Encyclopedia Brown series?
In this classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore, the narrator hears "the prancing and pawing of each little hoof" on the roof.
What is "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas")?
This smart, curious monkey is always getting into mischief with the Man in the Yellow Hat.
Who is Curious George?
This book by E.B. White is about a pig named Wilbur who is saved by a spider named Charlotte.
What is Charlotte's Web?
This book by Wilson Rawls is about two dogs and a boy who live in the Ozark Mountains.
What is Where the Red Fern Grows?
This series by Mary Pope Osborne features a brother and sister who travel through time in a magic tree house.
What is the Magic Tree House series?
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, this mean old miser is visited by three ghosts.
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
This brave girl with a pet dog named Trusty survives in the Wisconsin wilderness in a book by Jean Craighead George.
Who is Julie? (From Julie of the Wolves)
This Judy Blume book follows a girl named Margaret who has questions about growing up.
What is Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.?
This book by Sheila Burnford is about two dogs and a cat who travel hundreds of miles to find their owners.
What is The Incredible Journey?
This book by Blue Balliett is about three kids trying to solve a mystery involving famous art at a museum.
What is Chasing Vermeer?
In a book by Chris Van Allsburg, a young girl's wish comes true when she takes a magical train ride to this place.
What is the North Pole? (From The Polar Express)
This girl lives in a big red house and has a best friend named Howie in books by Beverly Cleary.
Who is Ramona Quimby?
This book by Madeleine L'Engle is about a girl named Meg who travels through space and time to rescue her father.
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
This book by Jack London is about a wolf-dog named White Fang in the Yukon Territory.
What is White Fang?
This book by Ellen Raskin is a puzzle mystery where 16 people try to inherit a fortune.
What is The Westing Game?
In the Harry Potter series, Harry receives this invisible, silky cloth as a Christmas present in his first year.
What is the Invisibility Cloak?
This adventurous frog and his friend Toad get into funny situations in easy-to-read books by Arnold Lobel.
Who is Frog (from Frog and Toad)?
This book by Katherine Paterson is about a young girl who helps a boy named Leslie create a magical kingdom called Terabithia.
What is Bridge to Terabithia?
This book by George Selden is about a cricket from Connecticut who ends up in a New York City subway station.
What is The Cricket in Times Square?
This book by Jean Craighead George is about a boy named Sam who runs away to live in the Catskill Mountains.
What is My Side of the Mountain?
This ghost shows Scrooge happy Christmas memories from his past in A Christmas Carol.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
This clever mouse is the king of his family and lives in a wall at a "people house" in books by Robert C. O'Brien.
Who is Mrs. Frisby? (From Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH) The main mouse is Nicodemus.