Zeroteenth Birthday Book Quiz! (Part 2)

And here is part 2... Scroll to the bottom for the answers.  Part 1 can be found here, and part 3 here.

Birthday girl with one of her birthday books

1.       Where does Frances run away to in A Baby Sister for Frances?

a.       Under the sink

b.      Under the table

c.       The backyard

d.      The hall closet

2.       What category of names does Clementine call her brother?

a.       Fruit names

b.      Flower names

c.       Descriptive names (e.g. Patience, Charity)

d.      Vegetable names

3.       Back in China, Shirley Temple Wong was known as:

a.       Rascal

b.      Bandit

c.       Smuggler

d.      Wrangler

4.       Which of the following is a girl?

a.       Sal in When You Reach Me

b.      George in Nancy Drew

c.       Georges in Liar and Spy

d.      Laurie in Little Women

5.       Which of the following children do NOT cut or dye their own or someone else’s hair?

a.       Anastasia Krupnik

b.      Elisa and Russell Michaels

c.       Betsy, Tacy, and Tib

d.      Anne of Green Gables

6.       In Breathing Room, the main character is ill with:

a.       Pneumonia

b.      Bronchitis

c.       Whooping cough

d.      Tuberculosis

7.       In Out of My Mind, the main character can’t speak because:

a.       She has cerebral palsy

b.      She was hit by lightening

c.       She is deaf and only communicates in sign language

d.      She doesn’t want to

8.       In Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Fudge swallows:

a.       A goldfish

b.      A quarter

c.       A turtle

d.      Dog food
 

9.       Sheila Tubman is NOT afraid of:

a.       Dogs

b.      Lightning

c.       Swimming

d.      Heights

10.   In The Secret Garden, Mary moves to England from:

a.       Australia

b.      India

c.       Canada

d.      South Africa

Answers: 1. b, 2. d, 3. b, 4. b, 5. a, 6. d, 7. a, 8. c, 9. d, 10. b.

A Hairy Situation

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib's Lopsided Haircuts

The other morning, as I was cutting my daughter's hair to remove it from a comb she had tangled it in in a misguided attempt to curl her straight hair, I started thinking about children, real and fictional, and hair.  Almost every kid has cut her own hair, or cut a sibling's or a doll's hair, or had her hair cut by a sibling.  Not to mention the chewing-gum-in-the-hair-type incidents.

Ella and Her Hair

In the delightful, rhyming Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair, Ella lets her hair reach extreme proportions before succumbing to a haircut.

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib, in the second book in the series go overboard when they cut their hair to put in lockets to remember each other by (in case they die) and end up with very lopsided 'dos (see photo above).

In Russell and Elisa, the children take their pretend game of haircut to a new level when they actually cut first Elisa's doll Airmail's hair and then Elisa's friend's hair.

Ramona and Her Crown of Burrs

And of course, in Ramona and Her Father, Ramona makes herself a crown out of burrs, which, predictably to us, but apparently surprisingly to Ramona, gets stuck in her hair, forcing her father to cut it.  This is the scene to which my mind immediately flashed as I dealt with my own daughter's hairtastrophe (yes, I just made that word up) that morning.

Can you think of other fictional characters who get themselves into such hairy situations or do you have a story about yourself or your own child's hairtastrpohe?