Library Tales

Next Thursday, August 1, Library Tales at the Downieville Library will feature Kathy Fischer presenting “Happy Dance”. This will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and all children of all ages are invited. Come prepared to mooooooooove!!

Fictional Addresses: A Quiz — The Answers

In last week’s column, I laid before you a challenge to see how familiar you are with famous addresses in fiction. You were challenged to name who lived at each address, the book where the address is found, and the author of the book. Here are the answers. How did you do? Any bragging rights!

1. 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, United Kingdom

Banks family, Mary Poppins, by Mary Travers

2. 4 Klickitat Street, Portland, Oregon

Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, by Beverly Cleary

3. 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, United Kingdom

Dursley family, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling

4. Bag End, Bagshot Row, Hobbiton, Middle Earth

Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, by R.R. Tolkien

5. 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Phileas Fogg, Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne

6. Toad Hall

Mr. Toad, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

7. Flat 203, 56B Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London, United Kingdom

Hercule Poirot, The A.B.C. Murders, by Agatha Christie

8. 186 Fleet Street, London, United Kingdom

Sweeney Todd, The String of Pearls, by James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest

9. 221 B Baker Street, London, United Kingdom

Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10. Villa Villekulla, Visby, Sweden

Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren

11. 32 Windsor Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Brown family, A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond

12. Pemberley House, Lambton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

13. S. Alabama Avenue, Maycomb, Alabama

Finch family, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

14. Manderley, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Second Mrs. DeWinter & Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

15. Green Gables, Avonlea, Prince Edwards Island, Canada

Anne Shirley, Marilla & Matthew Cuthbert, Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

16. Number 14, near Kensington Gardens, London, England

Darling family, Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie

17. A house situated on a slight rise on the end of the village of Cottington, West Country, United Kingdom

Arthur Dent, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams