Kids' Stuff

In Lucy the Good, the ‘about the author’ blurb lists three statements of which only one is true. Which do you think it is?
a) Marianne is an Olympic skiing bronze medallist
b) Marianne is an Australian junior chess champion or
c) Marianne is a descendant of King Henry VIII’s librarian.

Answer: c.

If you’d like to bake Dutch spiced biscuits like Lucy, check out the back of the book for an old family recipe. They’re very tasty!

Get your very own Worry Tree! Click here to download a free screensaver or poster from the Random House website:
www.randomhouse.com.au/funstuff.

The Worry Tree Quiz

Questions:

1. What are Juliet and Oaf's middle names?
   
   
2. True or False:
   1. Delia the duck looks after worries about change.
   2. Petronella the pig looks after worries about lost things.
   3. Wolfgang the wombat looks after worries about school.


3. Would Juliet rather breathe underwater or fly through the air?
   
   
4. What did Hugh feed Juliet's Venus flytrap at the school fete?
   
   
5. Name two of Juliet's collections.
   
   
6. What job did Nana have before she retired?
   
   
7. What solution did Juliet propose when Oaf wouldn't eat her peas?
   
   
8. How many pieces of bubblegum did Oaf chew in order to win the Wattle Street School award for most pieces of bubblegum chewed at any one time? What else did she chew apart from the bubblegum?
   
   
9. What eraser did Juliet want Gemma to swap the volcano eraser for?
   
   
10. Name the three Bettina dolls featured in The Worry Tree.

For quiz answers please click here.

If you have any ideas regarding what the other verses of The Irritating Song might be, send an email to marianne@mariannemusgrove.com.au (but do keep it clean!)