Munsch Ado About Nothing
First Words
Classic Characters
Ob-seuss-ed
Titles in Other Words
100
A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang this.
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be.
100
"All children, except one, grow up."
Peter Pan
100
This donkey is generally characterized as being pessimistic, gloomy, and depressed.
Eeyore
100
The titular item(s) referred to in the following quote: I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse.
Green Eggs and Ham.
100
The starving baby butterfly.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
200
This titular royal maiden delighted feminists everywhere when she stated “Ronald, your clothes are really pretty and your hair is very neat … but you are a bum.”
Elizabeth, the Paper Bag Princess.
200
"In the great green room There was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of- The cow jumping over the moon"
Goodnight Moon
200
The long suffering sister of mischievous bunny, Max
Ruby
200
This title character arrives just in time when “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. I sat there with Sally, we sat there we two. And I said, “How I wish we had something to do!””
The Cat in The Hat
200
The Cotton-Pile Fabric Bunny
The Velveteen Rabbit
300
After refusing to buy the one hundred boxes of ice cream and three hundred chocolate bars at the supermarket, Tyya’s father finally agreed to spend $29.95 on this worthy item.
Tyya.
300
The first words spoken in this classic are, "What a nice little monkey. I would like to take him home with me."
Curious George
300
This young fruit bat was raised as a bird
Stellaluna
300
This is the Dr. Seuss book most commonly quoted at graduation ceremonies.
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
300
The Location in Which the Untameable Creatures Dwell
Where the Wild Things Are
400
This admonition is repeated in response to “Clang, clang, rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day. Clang, clang, rattle-bing-bang Gonna make my noise all day."
MORTIMER, BE QUIET!
400
“Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy.”
The Giving Tree
400
This literal minded housekeeper once made sponge cake by mixing in actual sponges
Amelia Bedelia
400
The name of the littlest Who, who was not more than two.
Cindy Lou Who
400
Overcast with a Possibility of Globular Protein
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
500
This story, about the imaginary Inuit creatures known as the Qallupilluit, was a collaboration between Munsch and Michael Kusugak.
A Promise is a Promise.
500
"I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell…"
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
500
The titular Beatrix Potter character described in the following quote “Her little black nose went sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes went twinkle, twinkle; and underneath her cap – where Lucie had yellow curls – that little person had PRICKLES!”
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
500
This is the total number of fish in the title of the well-known Dr. Seuss read-aloud.
Five (one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish).
500
The Story of a Long-Eared Herbivore Named for an Apostle
The Tale of Peter Rabbit