Christmas Books

Quiz

1. Hercule Poirot's Christmas is a work of fiction by which British writer?
2. Which character says at the end of the novel, A Christmas Carol: "God bless us, Every one!"?
3. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, in the opening line from which book?
4. Which illustrator and author is best known for his wordless story The Snowman?








5. Who said: "It is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long... always winter, but never Christmas."?
6. What present does the boy ask for from Santa in the children's book The Polar Express?
7. What carries Gerda to the Snow Queen's palace in the Hans Christian Andersen story?
8. A Child’s Christmas in Wales is which author's account of his childhood Christmases in a small Welsh town?
9. Who-ville, is a fictional town created by which author?
10. Letters from Father Christmas is a book in the form of a collection of letters written and illustrated by which author between 1920 and 1943?
11. Which author of Cider With Rosie also wrote a Village Christmas?
12. Which fictional character is the deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge?
13. In Raymond Brigg' Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, a rather grumpy Father Christmas decides to go on holiday to which British country?
14. Who wrote the comedic novel Skipping Christmas? The book was adapted for the film Christmas with the Kranks.

Answers

1. Agatha Christie
2. Tiny Tim
3. Little Women (by Louisa May Alcott)
4. Raymond Briggs
5. Mr. Tumnus
6. A bell (from one of the reindeer's harnesses) (The Polar Express was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg in 1985)
7. A reindeer (named Bae)
8. Dylan Thomas
9. Dr. Theodor Seuss
10. J. R. R. Tolkien
11. Laurie Lee
12. Jacob Marley
13. Scotland
14. John Grisham