Children's Picture Books - Random Trivia Questions

In 1999, then-Texas governor George Bush answered a questionnaire that asked for his favorite book when he was a child with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. An excellent book indeed, except that it was published in 1969 when the younger Bush was studying hard at Yale University. I know every college has its gut courses like "Rocks for Jocks", so he must have been enrolled in "Literature 001 - The Early Years"*.

The following questions are about illustrated children's books. Some may have been read to you as a child, and some you may have read to your own children.

Children's Picture Books Questions

• Q1) What is the only vegetable that The Very Hungry Caterpillar eats besides the leaf?
• Q2) In Eric Carle's The Grouchy Ladybug, what are the friendly and grouchy main characters eating?
• Q3) What color is the cat in Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Q4) What lonely animal asks, "Do You Want to Be My Friend?" in Carle's book?
• Q5) What did Carle's The Foolish Tortoise do that was so unwise?
• Q6) In Sandra Boynton's Blue Hat, Green Hat what animal can't wear his clothes properly?
• Q7) In Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's Goodnight Moon, what animal is going to sleep?
• Q8) What was John Lithgow's Marsupial Sue trying to avoid doing?
• Q9) According to J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh, what dog wanted to join Santa's reindeer?
• Q10) What type of animal are Maisy and Frederick, who were separately featured on Favorite Children's Book Animals U.S. postage stamps in 2006?
• Q11) What does Max dress up as in Where the Wild Things Are?
• Q12) In what city is Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings set?

* Bush's aides claimed that he misunderstood the question, excusing his memory and blaming his reading comprehension skills instead.