Children's Movies from Books - Random Trivia Questions

As great as a lot of children's movies are, the books they come from are usually even better. Reading allows you to go at your own pace. Reading stimulates your imagination in ways a movie can't. Reading gives you time to look up words you don't know. Reading simply makes you think more.

In the last couple of years, quite a few excellent children's books have been made into movies, like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. How many authors can you identify for the following dozen recent movies?

Children's Movies from Books Questions

• Q1) Alice Upside Down
• Q2) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• Q3) Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
• Q4) City of Ember
• Q5) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Q6) Coraline
• Q7) Golden Compass
• Q8) Inkheart
• Q9) Nim's Island
• Q10) The Spiderwick Chronicles (2 authors; take 1 point for each)
• Q11) Tale of Despereaux
• Q12) Twilight