Bob Graham Quiz

My copy of September/October 2022 Horn Book Magazine arrived today with a review of Bob Graham's newest book - Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post or as it is called in the US Jigsaw: A Mystery in the Mail.

I love their words:

"Graham fans will know to expect a miracle. His squiggly, interrupted pen lines can render even a pile of wastepaper dynamic, and even the cadence of his text makes the ordinary grand. ... this timely tale is a celebration of wishful thinking."  Sarah Allen reviewer 

Here is a quiz I sent to a friend for her 80th Birthday. I thought I would share it here just for fun! She is a huge fan (and expert) on the works of our wonderful Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham.

Can you identify the Bob Graham book for each of these quotes?

• Let’s call him a small hero; a small hero doing quiet deeds. The world needs more of those.
• Grandma and Grandad’s! A whole day and night. Where the tea is always hot, there’s a bed of feathers for weary wings, and pancakes with syrup for breakfast.
• Grandad was still reading from a Poem for Every Day of the Year, with Vincent’s sweet breath in his ear.
• The girls drank hot elderberry juice and then were hugged some more.
• Pete put his cap on his bed. Next he placed a piece of apple inside, for when Roland woke up. 
• They had a dog with goggles that rode up on the petrol tank It was the best thing I ever saw in my life.
• They ate the picnic grandma had packed. Plum sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs with a little sprinkle of salt.
• The music slips under doorways, through skylights and windows … as surely and pleasantly as the smell of hot chocolate.
• Sunlight from all over the city streamed through the window and the kitchen clock struck ten.
• The baby arrived on the stroke of midnight along with two little strands of red hair.
• Mrs Stavros bought a bus cake, and Lucy lent her dog, Bear, for anyone who needed to just sit and pat something. 
• The engine coughed and sputtered. Wild flowers burst from the tailpipe. And for those who had time to look, the small van gathered speed. … and slowly left the ground like a swan in flight.
• The seventh day was picnic day on the docks, with plum jam sandwiches, ginger beer and fruit cake.
• I’ve bought some flowers and hot fairy cakes from my mum.
• Dave climbed right over the top of Kate, who briefly wore him like a hat.
• “That’s wishful thinking,’ said Mum. ‘Let’s wish then,’ said Katie.
• Will opened his hands and with a beat of its wings, the bird was gone.