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Red Clover Nominees 2012-2013

Fiction

Question: Which story is about a boy who has moved to a new neighborhood?
Answer: Neville by Norton Juster

Question: A cat, a dog, and a mouse live happily together in this story.
Answer: Three by the Sea by Mini Grey

Question: The pig is not really a princess in this story.
Answer: The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett.

Question: This story is about memory loss.
Answer: Grandpa Green by Lane Smith

Question: In Three by the Sea, who is the character that gets everyone upset?
Answer: The fox.

Nonfiction

Question: All the Water in the World is a story about what?
Answer: The water cycle.

Question: This story tells about Tony Sarge the man who created the ideas and puppets for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Answer: Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

Question: This book is in nonfiction, but it's not an information book. It's a book of poetry.
Answer: Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman

Question: In Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade, how old was Tony Sarge when he started inventing things?
Answer: 6 years old.

Question: In Swirl by Swirl:... we learn that there are _______________ shapes in nature.
Answer: Spirals


Based on True Stories

Question: This is a story about a day when the power went out in New York City.
Answer: Blackout by John Rocco

Question: This book is about Jane Goodall.
Answer: Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnell

Question: In this story the aunt wants to buy a car to take everyone to the sea.
Answer: Tia Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina

Question: In Blackout everyone in the family is busy expect for who?
Answer: The main character - the boy.

Question: What was the name of Jane's stuffed animal in Me... Jane?
Answer: Jubilee.

Illustrators

Question: In Tia Isa Wants a Car, we see a color used repeatedly throughout the book. What is it?
Answer: The blue of the sea where Tia Isa grew up - teal/aqua.

Question: Author illustrator Lane Smith used black line drawings for the less important things in the book and vibrant greens for the important things in the story. Which book did he write/illustrate?
Answer: Grandpa Green

Question: In this book, illustrator Katherine Tillotson used a variety of styles. There was one illustration of trees in a collage style that had a hidden tiger in it. What book was this?
Answer: All the Water in the World.

Question: In Blackout, John Rocco used this painters style to inspire his own stars.
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: G. Brian Karas illustrated this book by starting off with a computer generated house and cloning it until he had a whole neighborhood.
Answer: Neville

Authors

Question: The author of this serious book usually writes silly stories. He has written the Time Warp Trio, Science Verse, The Stinky Cheese man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.
Answer: Lane Smith

Question: Joyce Sidman is well known for writing poetry about nature. What is her book that is on the Red Clover Nominee list this year?
Answer: Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

Question: Mini Grey is the author of this story about friendship and getting along together.
Answer: Three By the Sea

Question: This author from Great Britian, Jonathan Emmett, has written a fractured fairy tale - what book is it?
Answer: The Princess and the Pig

Question: Patrick McDonnell wrote a story about a famous person when she was a child.
Answer: Me... Jane