See if you can identify which books contain the wintertime quotes below!
By FCPL's My Perfect Read Advisors
Books
A. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
B. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
C. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
D. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Quotes
1.
“Ma said that Jack Frost came in the night and made pictures while everyone was asleep. Laura thought that Jack Frost was a little man all snowy white, wearing a glittering white pointed cap and soft white knee-boots made of dearskin. His coat was white and his mittens were white, and he did not carry a gun on his back, but in his hands he had shining sharp tools with which he carved the pictures.”
2.
“When I had been there a little longer, and had seen this phase of crystal clearness followed by long stretches of sunless cold; when the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds had charged down to their support; I began to understand why Starkfield emerged from its six months’ siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter.”
3.
“And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.”
4.
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
ANSWERS: 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D