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Burrows, Bathtubs, and Barnyards

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Can you identify these famous animal characters in children’s stories by WHERE they lived? Type your answers in the empty box (or just remember them), and then check your answers.

Type your answers in the box below each quote (or just remember them), and then check your answers.

What little Spanish bull liked to sit under a cork tree and smell the flowers instead of fighting in the ring?
What surly rat complained about his temporary home in a crate with a soon-to-be-famous pig?
What Dr. Seuss-inspired pachyderm nested in a tree as a favor to a bird friend named Mayzie?
What peace-loving, lilliputian creatures wearing bright colors but seldom shoes called their home Middle Earth?
What wishful donkey lived unhappily as a pebble on a rock?
Who hid, ears up, in a 'tiny sprinkling pail' in a tool-shed?
What wayward ducks eventually found a home in the Boston Public Gardens and were sketched by their 'author' in his nearby bathtub?
Who lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders?
What creature, with eyes of flame, 'came whiffling through the tulgey wood'?
This musical insect took up residence in a Times Square newsstand. Who (and what) was he?
What head of a family of field mice lived in a slightly damaged cinder block, abandoned in a garden?
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?

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