Bridges

A fun quiz for all the family. Can you discover who the characters are and which books they come from? They may be found in books old and new so parents (and even grandparents) can join in the hunt.

1. Who floats out from under a bridge with his legs in the air?

• Eeyore in A A Milne's House at Pooh Corner;

2. Who refuses to cross a broken bridge in the dark despite being whipped?

• Black Beauty in the book by Anna Sewell;

3. Who saves herself from a sinking raft by clinging onto a bridge?

• Anne of Green Gables in the book by L M Montgomery;

4. Who is towed by a big black cat along the top branch of the tallest pine tree to the castle battlements?

• Maria in Elizabeth Goudge's Little White Horse;

5. Who leaps to safety from a snow bridge as it collapses beneath her?

• Lyra in Philip Pullman's Northern Lights;

6. Who likes winter and sits on a bridge parapet singing about the snow horse she's made?

• Tooticky in Tove Janssen's Moominland Midwinter;

7. Which three brothers trip-trap over a bridge?

• The three Billy-Goats Gruff (traditional);

8. Who hides under a bridge with his mother while their inn is ransacked for treasure?

• Jim in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island;

9. Who doesn't realise he's being watched by an enemy hiding on a bridge as he mops his boat's topsides?

• Tom in Arthur Ransome's Coot Club;

10. Whose boat is sunk by a big stone dropped from a bridge by two stoats?

• Toad in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows