[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen you see this sign in the Moody/Wetherill Visual Arts Center parking lot, you know it’s summer at Hollins and that the M.F.A. program in children’s literature is in session (after the session ends, the sign lives in the children’s wing of the library). Dreamed up and painted by Ashley Wolff, Lauren Mills, Ruth Sanderson, and Wendy Watson, faculty members in the children’s book illustration certificate program, the sign “aims for picture book locations with an emphasis on American ones, if possible,” according to Wolff.

Take our quiz and match the signpost places with their respective books. For those places that are also book titles, you’ll have to guess the author and illustrator. There are also extra-credit questions for those who really know their way around the children’s literature landscape.

Photo: Albana Moreyra ’14

 Signpost Places

Secret Garden

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the author” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett[/toggle]

Terabithia

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the full title; extra credit for naming the author” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Katherine Paterson[/toggle]

Pooh Corner

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the author; extra credit for quoting the first verse of Pooh’s hum” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Author: A.A. Milne
First verse of Pooh’s hum:
“The more it snows
(Tiddely pom),
The more it goes
(Tiddely pom),
On snowing.
And nobody knows
(Tiddely pom), (Tiddely pom),
Are growing.”[/toggle]

The Enchanted Wood

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the author” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Author: Enid Blyton[/toggle]

The Great Green Room

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Match the place with the title (you should know the author!)” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: Goodnight Moon
Author: Margaret Wise Brown ’32
Illustrator: Clement Hurd[/toggle]

Banbury Cross

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the animal toy in the rhyme” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]”Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross.”[/toggle]

Haunted Wood

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the book and author (harder than you think)” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: Anne of Green Gables
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery[/toggle]

Roxaboxen

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the author and illustrator” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Author: Alice McLerran
Illustrator: Barbara Cooney[/toggle]

Woodcock Pocket

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the full title and author/illustrator” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: Toot and Puddle: Welcome to Woodcock Pocket
Author and illustrator: Holly Hobbie[/toggle]

An Old House in Paris

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the title that goes with the place; extra credit for identifying the author/illustrator; extra-extra credit for quoting the opening lines” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: Madeline
Author and illustrator: Ludwig Bemelmans
Opening lines:
“In an old house in
Paris that was covered
with vines
Lived twelve little girls in
two straight lines…”[/toggle]

Where the Wild Things Are

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the author/illustrator; extra credit for knowing the year in which the book won the Caldecott Medal” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Author and illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Won the Caldecott Medal: 1964[/toggle]

Times Square

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the full title; extra credit for knowing the author and illustrator” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Title: The Cricket in Times Square
Author: George Selden
Illustrator: Garth Williams[/toggle]

Krasinski Square

[toggle title_open=”Answer” title_closed=”Name the animal in the full title; extra credit for naming the author and illustrator” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Animal: cats (The Cats in Krasinski Square)
Author: Karen Hesse
llustrator: Wendy Watson[/toggle]

There’s more!

The children’s literature graduate program is having a contest to name three more special places in children’s literature. The winning suggestions will be painted by faculty members of the children’s book illustration certificate program. Send your suggestions by October 1, 2013, to Ashley Wolff at ashley@ashleywolff.com. The first person to suggest a particular place gets the credit.