Happy 100th Birthday Fay Library!

Just recently, the winners of the 2008 Newbery Medal and Newbery Honors were announced. Since this is the third time that author Kate DiCamillo has appeared on our countdown with her book Because of Winn-Dixie, I would like to know, “What is the total number of Newbery Medals and Honors has Kate DiCamillo won? I also want to know which books received which medal.

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #8 is 5 of Roald Dahl’s children’s books have been made into feature films: James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

In 1996, the children’s book James and the Giant Peach written by Roald Dahl, was made into a full-length movie. How many of Roald Dahl’s children’s books have been made into feature films and what are the titles of those books/movies?

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #7 is Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte. Sisters of Charlotte Bronte, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights and Anne wrote Agnes Grey.

When Charlotte Bronte published Jane Eyre in 1847, it brought her much success which was unusual for a woman in those days. However, Charlotte was not the only female published author in her family. What are the names of Charlotte’s two sisters who wrote the books Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey?

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #6 is the Eliza Award. This award was created in 2002 by the Fay School Library and The Mystery of Eatum Hall was voted as the Lower School’s favorite picture book in 2005.

In 2005, the picture book The Mystery of Eatum Hall by John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell won a very important and prestigious children’s literature award. What is the name of the award?

Hint: Anyone who had library classes in the Lower School here at Fay should know the answer to this question.

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #5 is Holes by Louis Sachar. The main character’s name is Stanley Yelnats which, if you read it backwards, reads Stanley Yelnats.

In this episode’s countdown of “Fay’s 100 Favorite Books,” there are two titles whose main characters have the same first name of Stanley. The first title is obviously Flat Stanley. What is the other title?

Answer to the Library Book Trivia Question #4: Dr. Seuss is Theodore Geisel and Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens

On this episode of the Fay’s 100 Favorite Books Countdown, numbers 70-61, there are two authors who use pen names, Dr. Seuss and Mark Twain. What are the real names of these two authors?

Answer to the Library Book Trivia Question #3: The Old Man and the Sea

Rodman Philbrick, adult and children’s author who wrote Freak the Mighty, loves to fish near his home in Maine. In 2004, he wrote the book The Young Man and the Sea,  a story about a 12 year old boy who takes a very small boat out on the ocean by himself to try and catch a bluefin tuna. The Young Man and the Sea is Rodman Philbrick’s way of paying respect to another famous fishing story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1952. What is the title of that book?

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #2: The Cat in the Hat

In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote a beginning reader book that included only 236 different vocabulary words. What was the name of that book? Hint: The story happens on a rainy day while mother is out.

Answer to Library Book Trivia Question #1:  Winnie-the-Pooh

Here is the first Library Book Trivia Question! If you think you know the answer and you can’t wait until the next installment of The Wind in the Willows podcast to find out if you’re correct, then come down to the library and tell Mrs. D’Elia what your guess is or submit your answer below. Good Luck!

For the seventy-fifth anniversary edition of The Wind in the Willows, the book was republished with lovely illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Shepard also created the original illustrations of what other well-loved children’s classic, published in 1926, that has a full cast of delightful characters? Hint: Those characters live in the Hundred Acre Woods!

The Fay School Library is celebrating its 100th birthday and we want you to join us!

Our first broadcast of The Wind in the Willows written by Kenneth Grahame, the first installment of the “Library Book Trivia Question” and the first part of the “Fay’s 100 Favorite Books” Countdown will begin on September 21, 2007 (the end of our first effort period). So stay tuned!