BOTB 2023-2024

Question 1

In which book are there tiny hand-stitched books, meticulously inked with tiny brushes, delivered to all the people in town at night?

Answer 1

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 2

In which book does an old woman remember receiving the precious gift of a wind up butterfly with cut glass eyes that sparkled in any light and wings made from thread that glittered in the dark?

Answer 2

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 3

In which book is a town famous for its abundance of trees - shade trees in parks, blossoming trees in walkways and fruit trees lining the streets?

Answer 3

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 4

In which book do a group of townspeople host a picnic “from neighbors, for neighbors” where all are welcome?

Answer 4

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 5

In which book does a character dig a burrow in the ground to lie in during the day and then come out each night?

Answer 5

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 6

In which book does a dragon put on the skin of an antelope and then become the antelope, eating as the antelope eat and speaking as the antelope speak?

Answer 6

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 7

In which book does a boy, charged with teaching a group of children math, instead tell a story about a stone who fell in love with an oak tree?

Answer 7

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 8

In which book does a group of children spy through the window of a house with no grass or plants, only a yard of carefully raked rocks with several statues?

Answer 8

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 9

In which book does an extensive traveler make herself useful as a builder and maker of ingenious contraptions?

Answer 9

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 10

In which book does a woman cherish a little card she recieves with a small painting of a dog sitting at attention with a crow on his head?

Answer 10

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 11

In which book does a local secondhand dealer deliver an old but still serviceable icebox and leave with a jar of jam, bottle of elderflower syrup and a bar of soap?

Answer 11

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 12

In which book does a girl give a coughing man lozenges she has made from boiling herbs and raspberry seeds in honey until they’d hardened into little nuggets?

Answer 12

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 13

In which book does a character return from a long journey only to discover that in her absence the entire village has been burned to the ground and abandoned?

Answer 13

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 14

In which book does the constable of a town operate out of her own house, with her barn in the back converted into a stockade for people to spend a night or two cooling off and a tent in the front yard for all the office functions?

Answer 14

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 15

In which book does a cobbler use his “marvelous hat” to collect money from a crowd of people gathered in the town square?

Answer 15

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 16

In which book does a butcher help rescue 4 infant lambs and their mothers from a burning barn after having started the fire himself?

Answer 16

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 17

In which book does a mayor, pained by so much disagreement in his community, have his carpenters build a heavy wooden box to fit over a stone with ancient writing?

Answer 17

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 18

In which book does a “clodwer” of cats stalk around the edge of a yard, keeping their gaze pinned on the front door of the house and their ears tilted forward?

Answer 18

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 19

In which book does a butcher replace a section of missing stones in front of his shop, spending all morning hauling, shaping and replacing the rocks?

Answer 19

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 20

In which book does a boy have starkly different colored eyes giving him the advantage of being able to see things in two separate ways - one eye colored hazel with flecks of green and gold and the other pale like the color of skimmed milk?

Answer 20

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 21

In which book does a boy insist that he once found a book in the Reading Room that released real smoke from the library fire when he opened it?

Answer 21

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

Question 22

“The punishment for my crime, for answering in my own Twi instead of talking in the stale, foreign language that Mr. Goodluck Phillip makes us speak in school…”

Answer 22

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 23

“My cousin does not walk around, he marches, thinks he is a soldier, is stronger and taller than me by two coconuts, which I see him nearly split open with his hard head, then offer to whichever girl he is fond of all the time”

Answer 23

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 24

“I hear My brother hollering at us from the riverbank like an angry hyena for me to get out of the water NOW!”

Answer 24

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 25

“Chale, I must say it is the best idea you have ever had. You are a big fish, your cousin is a minnow. He does not send a chance, he says, stuffing his mouth with red berries”

Answer 25

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 26

“Ama if you were a mango I would peel you keep you for myself then reveal you if you disappeared I would find you treat you like gold and then mine you if you were a secret I would carry you between my two lips and then marry you, is what I say to the girl who makes my stomach wobble and my heart beat…”

Answer 26

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 27

“We all watch in slow motion as Yaw lies there silent, eyes bulging, body limp like he is disappearing from himself”

Answer 27

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 28

“When I come out I do not see my brother lounging riverside but I do see his timepiece lying in the same spot where he sat, and even though I know he is probably hiding and wants me to find him, for a moment I grin, thinking that maybe the beast he is always chattering about has finally come for him”

Answer 28

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 29

“My hands bound together by twine, a tall, dark shadow holding a machete yanks me through the storm by the same rope I hung by”

Answer 29

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 30

“Crocodile and strength point their weapons at me, letting me know if I do not drop Two Fishe`s gun they will drop me”

Answer 30

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 31

“At the end of the tunnel is an archway of daylight is a curved opening is an entrance to some unknown. A door of no return”

Answer 31

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 32

“She turns to me, smiles, says, do not forget to listen for the beautiful things, Kofi, drops the blade, spreads each arm out wide, like she is holding on to the world. then she jumps”

Answer 32

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 33

“Follow me, chale, I got you! I say to him, right before I spread my wings and soar into the purpled unknown. So, he does, paddling, kicking, mirroring my every move. And together, we fly”

Answer 33

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Question 34

In The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill, why are there always many cats surrounding the mayor’s house?

Answer 34

Cats and dragons never got along although the dragon is disguised as a mayor.

Question 35

In what book does someone continuously receive pies? Who receives them?

Answer 35

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill. The mayor receives pies.