The picture is a moon, and the book is 'Goodnight Moon'. It's a simple story about a young rabbit saying goodnight to all the things in his room. Margaret Wise Brown wanted to write a story about things that were familiar to children, and came up with the idea for the story in a dream.
The characters are rabbits because Clement Hurd, the illustrator, was better at drawing rabbits than drawing people. 'Goodnight Moon' has been made into both a musical and a film.
2. Beatrix Potter
The picture is a hedgehog, and the book is 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle'. Beatrix Potter's books were often about anthropomorphic animals, mischievous Peter Rabbit being one of the most famous ones. A little girl called Lucie has lost some clothes, and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle washes them for her. Potter named the titular hedgehog washerwoman after a hedgehog she kept as a pet, and 'Tiggywinkles' is the name of a wildlife hospital in Buckinghamshire.
3. Dr Seuss
The picture is of eggs in a green sauce, and the book is 'Green Eggs and Ham'. It is Dr Seuss' best-selling book and even has a cafe named after it at the Seuss Landing theme park. It only uses fifty words overall to tell the story of an unnamed character (the guy in the top hat) who is offered green eggs and ham by his friend Sam-I-Am, and refuses to eat them repeatedly until Sam-I-Am convinces him to try them.
He realises he likes green eggs and ham after all. A TV adaptation was made for Netflix in 2019.
4. Michael Rosen
The picture is of a bear, and the book is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Although Michael Rosen is best known for writing poetry, 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' is his most well-known story book, about a group of children and their dog hunting a bear. Every time they are faced with an obstacle, they have to go through it, and end up being chased by the bear.
The children are based on illustrator Helen Oxenbury's children.
5. Judith Kerr
The photo is of a tiger, and the book is 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. Along with the 'Mog' books, about another kind of cat, it is one of Judith Kerr's most popular picture books. A tiger comes to visit a little girl called Sophie and her mum, and eats all the food in the house, as well as drinking all the water in the taps.
When Sophie's dad comes home, the family go out for a meal. They buy tiger food the next day, but the tiger never returns. The book was made into a film for TV in 2019, with a theme tune by Robbie Williams.
6. Eric Carle
The photo is of a caterpillar, and the book is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. It features Eric Carle's signature collage style, with holes in the pages to represent what the caterpillar ate. The caterpillar starts out by eating a different number of fruits every day, before feasting on salami, cake, a pickle and various other things on Saturday. On Sunday, he eats a leaf and goes into a cocoon, emerging two weeks later as a butterfly. 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' has been translated into over 60 languages.
As an aside, this was the first book I ever read aloud. My mum has a tape somewhere of me, aged two, reading it to my baby brother.
7. Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The photo is of a peach and a pear, and the book is 'Each Peach Pear Plum'. The book won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal (now known as the Carnegie Medal for Illustration). It features characters from various fairy tales and nursery rhymes being 'spied' in different situations, e.g. 'Each peach pear plum/I spy Tom Thumb'.
At the end of the book, all the characters come together to enjoy a fruit pie.
8. Julia Donaldson
The photo is of wall art of the Gruffalo, the monster from Julia Donaldson's book of the same name. The Gruffalo has been immortalised in toy form and was turned into a film starring James Corden as the mouse and the late Robbie Coltrane as the Gruffalo.
The story is based on a Chinese folk tale, 'The Fox that Borrows the Terror of a Tiger'; a mouse meets three predators - a fox, a snake and an owl - and scares them off with tales of a made-up beast called a Gruffalo. However, he gets a shock when the Gruffalo turns out to be real! Luckily, the mouse tricks the Gruffalo into thinking he's the scariest creature in the woods, and frightens him off too.
9. Roald Dahl
The picture is of a crocodile, and the book is 'The Enormous Crocodile'. It is one of many Roald Dahl books illustrated by Quentin Blake. The crocodile is constantly trying to eat children and disguises himself as a tree, a seesaw, a carousel animal and a bench. Each time, he is caught out by a different animal: Humpy-Rumpy the hippopotamus, Muggle-Wump the monkey, the Roly-Poly Bird, and Trunky the elephant, who flings him into the sun. Muggle-Wump and the Roly-Poly Bird also appear in 'The Twits'.
10. Raymond Briggs
The photo is of a snowman and the book is, of course, 'The Snowman'. Unlike the other books in this quiz, 'The Snowman' does not have words and is told solely through pictures. A boy builds a snowman, who comes to life at midnight and plays with him. The boy and the snowman fly over the South Downs and Brighton Pier before flying home, and the next day, the snowman melts.
A film of the book was made in 1982, with a few changes: the boy is called James and the snowman takes him to a party of snow people.
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