A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. This holiday classic by Chris Van Allsburg earned a Caldecott Medal.
What is the Polar Express?
The witches in this book wore wigs and pointed shoes to hide their bald heads and square feet with no toes! They had eyes that changed colors and were mean and mischievous. They were cruel to children and turned them into mice. They live in a castle in Norway. This appropriate titled book by Roal Dahl won the New York Times Outstanding Books Award, Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award, and Whitbread Award.
What are Witches?
This fictional island featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is an imaginary faraway place where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys, and some other mythical beings and creatures live.
What is Neverland?
Pantalaimon (Pan) is Lyra's daemon which is a manifestation of her soul is depicted in trilogy.
What is His Dark Materials?
This 1957 children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss centers on a tall human-like animal who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie.
Who is the Cat in the Hat?
In this book by American author Louisa May Alcott written in 1898. The opening sentence is, "Christmas won't be Christmas, without any presents."
What is Little Women?
Trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in this village in Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.
What is Salem?
This place is an imaginary country created by Alice Liddell during her childhood. It is located in Alice's mind and the creation of her vivid imagination. Alice is able to visit it even while in a hypnotic daydream where the inhabitants include the White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and others.
What is Wonderland?
He is a fictional character; he is the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger.
Who is Tonto?
In E.B. White's masterpiece Charlotte's Web,Wilbur, the runt of a litter is rescued from inevitable slaughter and taking to a farm. When he settles in he meets a clever spider named Charlotte and other animals, including this scavenging rat.
Who is Templeton?
Sarah Josepha Hale, who is also the author of Mary Had A Little Lamb, is the one who persuaded this president to make Thanksgiving a National holiday which then was created as the “Thanksgiving Proclamation” declared the last Thursday of November of every year Thanksgiving.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The story in this titled book by Kelly Barnhill starts in a very sad village in the Bog, where every year on a certain day, the youngest baby is left in the forest for the Witch so that she won’t destroy everyone else. Xan, is a witch of 500 years and quite unaware that anyone thinks she wants to harm them. She rescues the babies every year, taking them through the forest to happier towns where they are adopted and cherished.
What is The Girl who Drank the Moon?
He resides at Bag End, a small (Hobbit-hole) situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. He agreed to a riddle game with Gollum to obtain the ONE RING.
Who is Bilbo Baggins?
This fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been portrayed by number of actors including Martin Freeman, Lucy Liu and Jude Law.
Who is Doctor Watson?
Dolly's existence was announced to the public on February 22, 1997. It gained much attention in the media. A commercial with Scottish scientists playing with Dolly was aired on TV, and a special report in Time magazine featured this kind of farm animal.
Oh, you thought the Fourth of July was just Independence Day? Well, in the Hannibal, Missouri hometown honoring this classic American author, it's also part of multi-day activities that are based on scenes from his books, including a frog long jump and a fence painting contest.
Who is Mark Twain?
In the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, there is a community gathering referred to as the husking bee where families come together socially to do this task.
What is husk corn?
Narnia is the mythical place created by writer this writer for his seven-book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which was written between 1949 and 1954.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
Who is Iago?
The story written in 1887 by Anna Sewell is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a titular horse with this name. Beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.
Who is Black Beauty?
This book titled "Wicked Cruel" by Rich Wallace has 3 separate short stories all set in the same New Hampshire town, in which boys explore the truth behind local urban legends that takes place around this holiday.
What is Halloween?
She is the villain in Frank Baum's classic The Wizard of Oz that is the leader of a terrifying, airborne simian army?
Who is the Wicked Witch of the West?
This fictional planet appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The planet shares the same name after an element and is the native world of Superman.
What is Krypton?
Batman's sidekick Robin, later assumes this superhero persona.
Who is Nightwing?
Popular legend has long held that a cow being milked by Mrs. Catherine O'Leary kicked over a kerosene lantern, igniting a barn fire that spread into the Great Fire . The famous story of Mrs. O'Leary's cow appeared soon after colossal fire that consumed much of this city.
What is Chicago?