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!!
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