"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a 19th century fairy tale by Englishman Robert Southey. It is a popular bed time story about a little girl with gold hair who enters a bear house in the forest, eats porridge, sits on a chair and sleeps on a bed. When the three bears return, she disappears by jumping out the window.
2. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst...
Answer: Dog
"Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" is a novel written by American journalist John Grogan. In the book, Grogan narrates the real story of his family's life with a yellow Labrador Retriever named Marley. In 2008, the book became a movie titled "Marley and Me".
3. To Kill a Mocking...
Answer: Bird
Written in 1960 by Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird" became a classic American novel, taught extensively in schools and universities. The book takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression and it deals with a series of issues such as racism, rape, domestic violence and social changes. Harper Lee received a Pulitzer Prize for her work and the book became a movie in 1962.
4. The...and the Grapes - An Aesop's Fable
Answer: Fox
Aesop was an ancient Greek story teller born in the 7th century BCE. His stories are called fables, they concentrate on a particular moral and the protagonists are usually animals who speak, act and think like humans. In the fable of "The Fox and the Grapes" a fox is trying to reach some grapes hanging from a vine and after many unsuccessful attempts, she quits and says that "the grapes would be sour anyway." The moral of the story is that "it is easy to snub what we cannot achieve."
5. The...Prince
Answer: Frog
"The Frog Prince" is one of the Brothers Grimm stories, a collection of German fairy tales, written in the 19th century. The original Brothers Grimm version is the story of a spoiled princess who accidentally throws a golden ball in a pond and a prince, cursed to become a frog, returns it to her.
He then asks the princess to love him and let him live with her but the disgusted princess throws him against the wall and, so, the curse is broken. In the modern version, the curse is lifted when the princess kisses the frog.
6. War...
Answer: Horse
English writer Michael Morpurgo wrote this children's novel about a horse named Joey who was a war horse during WWI. The horse belonged to a boy named Albert and was sold to the army by his father. Joey fights with the British army until he is captured by the Germans and becomes an ambulance horse, who, despite the horror of war, finds love and kindness among people.
7. The...in the Hat
Answer: Cat
Theodore Geisel or Dr Seuss, as he is more widely known, wrote and illustrated this children's book in 1957. The story about the magician cat with the tall, red and white striped hat has enchanted American children and has been successfully adopted into cinema, theater, television and educational material.
8. The Ugly...
Answer: Duckling
This classic children's tale was told by Danish story teller Hans Christian Andersen in the 19th century. A duckling is raised on a farm with his brothers and sisters, where he is the laughing stock of everybody because of his unusual looks. Instead of becoming a duck, the ugly duckling grows up to be a majestic white swan.
9. ...in the Mist
Answer: Gorillas
Renowned American zoologist and anthropologist Dian Fossey wrote this book, a journal of her daily life combined with her observations and studies on the behavior of the mountain gorillas of Rwanda.
10. Island of the Blue...
Answer: Dolphins
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" is written by American writer Scott O' Dell. It is a novel, based partly on a true story of the 19th century, about a Native American girl who, for many years, was the only inhabitant on an island off the coast of California until she was discovered by hunters and rescued.
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