Two Spring Treats
Miranda has created a Gentle Spring Playlist, and Donna has put together a fiendish literary quiz to test your knowledge of seasonal reads.
Gentle Spring Playlist
You know how much I enjoy curating playlists to match moods or seasons, and as a springtime treat, I thought I’d share a playlist filled with music as calming and soft as spring showers (and you may be in need of some mental soothing after trying Mum’s literary spring quiz, further down). Play below or click here to access my playlist. — Miranda
A Springtime Literary Quiz
I've chosen music, poems and books from our shelves that give me those sunshiny, Springtime vibes! I'd love it if there might be a few new musical pieces as well as authors/books/poems for you to remember or meet for the first time, but primarily I just hope you enjoy doing the quiz as much as I enjoyed putting it together! — Donna
Who wrote these Springtime picture book classics?
1. Springtime for Jeanne-Marie
2. The Runaway Bunny
3. The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
4. Flower Fairies of the Spring
5. Spring Story
And the authors of these children's/ YA Springtime books are?
6. Flowering Spring
7. Spring Comes to World's End
8. Spring Comes to Nettleford
9. From Spring to Spring
10.The Peacock Spring
Name that title:
11. S— F— by P. G. Wodehouse
12. The S— of the R— by Dorothy Dunnett
13. In the S— of the Y—by Susan Hill
14. I— S— by Ann Bridges
15. The C— in S— by Elizabeth Cadell
Name that title and the author:
16. U— F— in the S— by — — —
17. S— by — —
18. The B— of S— by — —
19. A— in the S— by — —
20. In P— of S— by — —
Name that Title and Author in these April books:
21. The — — by T— A— o— E— a— h— G— G—
22. — in — by R— P—
23. — — —by I— H—
24. — —by G— H—
25. The — —by N— S—
Name the Title and the Author in these Springtime Romances and Mysteries:
26. A— G— by G— L— H— (US author)
27. A S— A— by K— F— (British author)
28. A K— S— by G— B— (Canadian author)
29. The I— of S— by L— D— (British author)
30. The C— M— by L— P— (Canadian author)
Can you name this Springtime Tune?
31. Y— than S—
32 W— I— S— in the R—
33.The R—'s R—
34. The F— that B— in the S—, T— L—
35. A— in P—
36. S— S—
37. E— P—
38. It M— as W— B— S—
39. A— S—
40. T— S—
And finally, who wrote the lines below (Bonus points if you can name the poem they're from)?
41. "The year's at the spring. And day's at the morn..."
42. "And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake"
43. "April is the cruellest month"
44. "The cherry and hoary pear/ Scatter their snow around."
45. "And the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours..."
46. "It waits upon the Lawn/ It shows the furthest Tree"
47. "April/ Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers"
48. "(while/people stare/arranging and changing placing/carefully there a strange/ thing and a known thing here)"
49. "keep us here/ All simply in the springtime of the year."
50. From you have I been absent in the spring"
Answers below:
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1. Françoise (Seignobosc)
2.Margaret Wise Brown
3.Du Bose Heyward
4.Cicely Mary Barker
5. Jill Barklem
6. Elfrida Vipont
7. Monica Dickens
8.Malcolm Saville
9. Alison Uttley
10. Rumer Godden
11. Spring Fever
12. The Spring of the Ram
13. In the Springtime of the Year
14. Ilyrian Spring
15. The Cuckoo in Spring
16. Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse
17. Spring by Ali Smith
18. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
19. Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott
20. In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas
21. The Enchanted April by The Author of Elizabeth and her German Garden
22. Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher
23. Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
24. April Lady by Georgette Heyer
25. The April Baby by Noel Streatfeild
26. April Gold by Grace Livingston Hill
27. A Springtime Affair by Katie Fforde
28. A Killing Spring by Gail Bowen
29. The Ides of Spring by Lindsey Davis
30. The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny
31. Younger than Springtime
32. When It's Springtime in the Rockies
33. The Robin's Return
34. The Flowers the Bloom in the Spring, Tra La
35. April in Paris
36. Spring Song
37. Easter Parade
38. It Might as Well Be Spring
39. April Showers
40. To Spring
41. Robert Browning, "Pippa Passes"
42. Robert Bridges, "Awake, My Heart"
43. T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
44. Robert Bridges, "Spring Goeth All in White"
45. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales"
46. Emily Dickinson, "A Light Exists in Spring"
47. Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Spring"
48. E. E. Cummings, "Spring is like a perhaps hand"
49.Robert Frost, "A Prayer in Spring"
50. William Shakespeare, " Sonnet 98"
I hope it’s neither too easy nor too hard, Debbie! I’ve never set a quiz before 🧐
Thank you both for these spring treats! I will relax with the playlist to soothe my brain that has become overheated working out Donna's quiz items :)