Burrows, Bathtubs, and Barnyards

1. What little Spanish bull liked to sit under a cork tree and smell the flowers instead of fighting in the ring?
   
   Answer:
   Ferdinand, in Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, 1938.
   
   
2. What surly rat complained about his temporary home in a crate with a soon-to-be-famous pig?
   
   Answer:
   Templeton, in Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, 1952.
   
   
3. What Dr. Seuss-inspired pachyderm nested in a tree as a favor to a bird friend named Mayzie?
   
   
   Answer:
   Horton, in Horton Hatches The Egg by Dr. Seuss, 1940.
   
   
4. What peace-loving, lilliputian creatures wearing bright colors but seldom shoes called their home Middle Earth?
   
   Answer:
   the Hobbits, in The Hobbits by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937.
   
   
5. What wishful donkey lived unhappily as a pebble on a rock?
   
   
   Answer:
   Sylvester, in Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig, 1969.
   
   
6. Who hid, ears up, in a 'tiny sprinkling pail' in a tool-shed?
   
   
   Answer:
   Peter, in The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.
   
   
7. What wayward ducks eventually found a home in the Boston Public Gardens and were sketched by their 'author' in his nearby bathtub?
   
   
   Answer:
   mallards, in Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, 1941.
   
   
8. Who lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders?
   
   
   Answer:
   Winnie-the-Pooh (bear), in Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, 1926.
   
   
9. What creature, with eyes of flame, 'came whiffling through the tulgey wood'?
   
   
   Answer:
   the Jabberwock, in Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, 1896.
   
   
10. This musical insect took up residence in a Times Square newsstand. Who (and what) was he?
    
    
    Answer:
    Chester, a cricket, in The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, 1960.
    
    
11. What head of a family of field mice lived in a slightly damaged cinder block, abandoned in a garden?
    
    
    Answer:
    Mrs. Frisby, in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien, 1971.
    
    
12. What classy rodent rode a Fifth Avenue bus, raced a sailboat in Central Park (and won), and drove a car North to visit the bird of his dreams?
    
    
    Answer:
    Stuart, a hero-mouse, in Stuart Little by E.B. White, 1945.

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