Children's Picture Books - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Pickle. The total carnage consists of several fruits (apple, pear, plum, strawberry, orange, and watermelon), a few desserts (chocolate cake, ice cream cone, lollipop, cherry pie, and cupcake), and assorted other items (Swiss cheese, salami, and sausage).
• A2) Aphids. The grouchy ladybug refuses to share, is too scared to fight, and has an amazing 12-hour adventure.
• A3) Purple. A red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, white dog, black sheep, and a goldfish also visit the classroom. The sequel Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? takes place at the zoo.
• A4) Mouse. The little gray rodent attempts to befriend a horse, an alligator, a lion, a hippo, a seal, a monkey, a peacock, a fox, a kangaroo, and a snake before finding another mouse to play with.
• A5) He took off his shell. Unfortunately, his desire for speed leaves him unprotected from predators, the sun, the rain, and the cold. Richard Buckley cowrote the story.
• A6) Turkey. The fowl fouls up by standing in a hat, wearing a shirt as pants, putting pants on upside down, donning a jacket backwards, using socks as gloves, and placing shoes on his head.
• A7) Rabbit. His bed is in a huge room where his mom sits knitting in a rocking chair, a fire is burning in the fireplace, and a bowl of mush is still out on the table.
• A8) Hopping. The female kangaroo tried to climb with the koalas, swim with the seals, and waltz with the wallabies.
• A9) Olive. The dog was convinced by a mondegreen from the song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", mishearing "all of the other reindeer" as "Olive, the other reindeer".
• A10) Mice. Lucy Cousins created Maisy (Maisy's ABC in 1994), and Leo Lionni introduced Frederick in 1967.
• A11) Wolf. Maurice Sendak's imaginative boy is banished to his bedroom for chasing his pet dog with a fork.
• A12) Boston. The duck family lives in a pond in the Boston Public Garden. Bronze statues of the mother and her eight ducklings were installed in the northeast corner of the real garden in 1987, and the book is now the official children's book of Massachusetts.