I Cant Believe its Not Literature!: Literature Light

Part 1: "Open Book Pease, Gamma" : Picture Books!

	Character Name	Illustrator (author)	Book (Or Book Series)
1.	Bea	Amy Schwartz	Bea and Mr. Jones
2.	Miss Nelson	James Marshall (Harry Allard)	Miss Nelson is Missing..
3.	Strega Nona	Tomie dePaula	Strega Nona...
4.	Grandpa	James Stevenson	Could be worse, That Dreadful Day, etc..
5.	Pearl	William Steig	The Amazing Bone
6.	Jimmy	Steven Kellogg (Trinka Hakes Noble)	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash...
7.	Harold	Crockett Johnson	Harold and the Purple Crayon...
8.	Drummer Hoff	Ed Emberly (Barbara Emberly)	Drummer Hoff
9.	George	James Marshall	George and Martha...
10.	Leo	Jose Abrugo (Robert Kraus)	Leo the Late Bloomer
11.	Petunia	Roger Duvoisin	Petunia
12.	Henry	Mary Calhoun	Hot Air Henry

Part 2: Literature Lite: Imaginary Books

13. A Match Made in Space
    George McFly

14. Practical Handbook of Bee Culture with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen
    Sherlock Holmes

15. Supremely Blest
    John Shade

16. Some More of Gods Greatest Mistakes
    Oolon Coloophid

17. Horn of Joy
    Matthew Maddox

18. Drying Out
    Casey

19. David Coperfield
    Edmund Welles

20. My Life at Home with the Kids
    Adam

21. Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me
    Austin Powers

22. Bare Ruined Choirs
    Barton Fink

23. From Outer Space
    Jose Chung

Part 3: You Mean We Get to Read In School Too? : A Test

24. Island of the Blue Dolphins

    1. Who was Ramo? How did he die?
       her brother; wild dogs tore his throat

    2. Who was Rontu? How did he die?
       her dog; he didn't

25. Bridge to Terabithia

    1. What did Jesse give Leslie for Christmas? What was its function?
       a puppy: Prince Terrien, guardian of Terabithia

26. James and the Giant Peach

    1. When the peach is threatened in the ocean, how much damage was done to the peach? Why?
       none - the sharks noses are built wrong to bite

27. Where the Red Fern Grows

    1. What happened to Rubin? What did he say when it happened?
       he fell on his axe. "Take it out of me."

28. The Trumpet of the Swan

    1. What unusual thing can Louis do?
       play a trumpet

    2. Who is Louis in love with?
       Serena (a swan)

29. To Kill a Mockingbird

    1. What did they find in the tree?
       2 pieces of chewing gum, 2 Indian head pennies, 2 soap carvings, a pack of chewing gum, a spelling medal, a pocket watch on a chain with an aluminum knife

30. Huckleberry Finn

    1. What is Huck's name when he is pretending to be a girl? In what three ways does the lady find out he is not a girl?
       Sarah Mary Williams: 1) threading a needle, 2) throwing style, 3)catching something in his lap

31. Short Stories (so there was a reason we read all those!):

    1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: What were the secret lives of Walter Mitty in the story?
       Sarahcommander, doctor, greatest pistol shot in the world, flight captain, prisoner to be executed.

    2. The Necklace: How much is the necklace worth? How much do they think the necklace is worth?
       Sarahnot over 500 francs. 40,000 francs

32. The Great Gatsby

    1. What was Gatsby doing in the pool at the end of the book? What was he riding on?
       nothing much--he was dead. a mattress

33. Lord of the Flies

    1. What was Jack's official title back in England?
       head choir boy

    2. What were the twins' names?
       Sam and Eric

34. The Odyssey

    1. How long did Odysseus swim for land after his ship sank?
       2 nights, 2 days

    2. Which of the women that Odysseus met during his travels did he sleep with?

       1. Trojan queen Hecuba

       2. Circe

       3. Calypso

       4. Penelope
       
       All of them

35. The Scarlet Letter

    1. With what was the famous letter attached to Hester's dress?
       embroidered with gold thread

    2. How old is Pearl when she finds out who her father is?
       7

36. Great Expectations

    1. Who was Miss Havisham's maid?
       Sarah Pocket

    2. Which ending is better?
       the original, of course

Part 4: The Humor Gazette: Comic-Strip Books

37. I Saw Elvis in My Ultrasound
    Night of the Living Dad
    We are Experiencing Parental Difficulties. Please Stand By
    Baby Blues

38. Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
    Scientific Progress goes "Boink"
    There's Treasure Everywhere
    Calvin and Hobbes

39. How to Play in Traffic
    How to Play With Your Food
    Cruel Tricks For Dear Friends
    Penn and Teller

40. Count Your Blessings
    Oops Were Out of Juice
    I Just Dropped Grandma!
    Family Circus

41. Loose Tails
    Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
    The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos
    Bloom County

42. Complete Guide to Guys: A Fairly Short Book
    Babies and Other Hazards of Sex
    Stay Fit and Healthy Until Youre Dead
    Dave Barry

43. What Me Pregnant?
    Grandpas Are For Jumping On
    Keep The Home Fries Burning
    For Better or For Worse

44. Night of the Crash Test Dummies
    Wiener Dog Art
    The Chickens Are Restless
    The Far Side

45. By The Pound
    At Large
    Loses His Feet
    Garfield

46. The First Decade
    Shrinkwrapped
    Unclear on the Concept
    Mister Boffo

47. Gags Again
    Shoots His Mouth Off
    Dead or Alive
    Al Jaffee

48. Pillage Idiot #11
    Plunder Blunder
    My Feet Are Drunk
    Hagar the Horrible

49. Raunchy Riddles
    More Raunchy Riddles
    The Only Dirty Joke Book Youll Ever Need
    Jackie 'the jokeman' Martling

50. Washed Bridges and Other Disasters
    Action Figure!
    The Reagan Years
    Doonesbury

51. It Takes Two to Tickle
    Shes a Momma; Not a Movie Star!
    License to Dream
    Rose is Rose

Part 5: Mystery and Detective Fiction

52. "...a tonsured scalp burned to the colour of a ripe hazel-nut..."
    Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael

53. "...his small neat person attired in striped trousers, correct black jacket, and natty bow tie, swept up from his patent leather shoes to his egg-shaped head on the immense mustache that adorned his upper lip."
    Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot

54. "Doing all this, inspecting these minute burglar-alarms, did not make him feel foolish or self-conscious. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession."
    Ian Fleming: James Bond

55. "...the rabbi of Barnard's Crossing Conservative Temple, did not like to prepare sermons, or for that matter to preach them."
    Harry Kemelman: David Small

56. " After all, he spent all his days being serious, even portentous, about minor crimes, he couldn't quite keep it up after hours with his own boy; and he was well aware in his own heart, though he never admitted it, that while he was more ready to threaten, it was usually Bunty who performed."
    Ellis Peters: Inspector George Felse

57. "[His] conditioning--traditional Navajo--caused him to put thought aside."
    Tony Hillerman: Jim Chee

58. "True, his accent was affected and his behaviour undignified to a degree, but he had been weighed in the balance over many seasons and pronounced harmless, and when he indulged in any startling eccentricity, the matter was dismissed with a shrug and a tolerant, "Christ, it's only his lordship.""
    Dorothy Sayers: Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey

59. "[She] always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account."
    Agatha Christie: Miss Marple

60. "His quaint blending of Essex flatness with saintly simplicity continuously amused...till the priest arrived (somehow) at Stratford with all his parcels, and came back for his umbrella."
    G.K. Chesterton: Father Brown

61. "I was never a very sociable fellow...always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all."
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes

62. "So in the early morn on a flat, calm, overcast day I stocked the ice chest on the little Munequita from my ship's stores on The Busted Flush, locked up the Flush, dropped down into my new playtoy, and as what faint breeze there was seemed to be coming out of the southwest..."
    John D. MacDonald: Travis McGee

63. " I...barrister at law, 68 next birthday, Old Bailey Hack..."
    John Mortimer: Horace Rumpole

Part 6: Dragons and Fairies and Space, Oh My!

64. Arrakis
    Frank Herbert,Dune

65. Altair
    Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan series

66. Xanth
    Piers Antony, The Magic of Xanth

67. Mithgar
    Dennis L. McKiernan, The Iron Tower Trilogy

68. The Six Duchies (Buck, Rippon, etc...)
    Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

69. Eosia
    David Eddings, The Elenium

70. Callahorn
    Terry Brooks, the Shannara series

71. Randland
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

72. Hain
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Hainish Cycle (Rocannons World, City of Illusions, Planet of Exile)

73. Osten Ard
    Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series

74. Rohanda (Shikasta)
    Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos: Archives

Part 7: Land of the Big Mac: Horror

75. In the works of Stephen King, what do the following names have in common (beyond the obvious): Ramsey Forrest, Robert Franq, Richard Fry, Robert Freemont, Richard Freemantle, Russell Faraday, Richard Fannin?
    They are all names for Randall Flagg, the Walkin Dude.

76. What is Dean Koontz's middle name?
    Ray

77. According to Clive Barker, why is everybody a Book of Blood?
    Whenever we're opened, we're red.

78. How is Norman described in Robert Bloch's Psycho?
    pudgy, middle-aged

79. Given the first line, name which Stephen King novel these are from:

    1. "The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years- if it ever did end- began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain"
       It

    2. "umber whunnn"
       Misery

    3. "Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick."
       The Shining

    4. "By the time he graduated college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953."
       The Dead Zone

    5. "Oh! Oh, Jesus! Gross!"
       Desperation

Part 8: Rogers love letter to Jessica