#puffin12days twitter competition!

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Dear Santa, the 10th book on my Xmas list is the story of a very peckish insect . . . Guess the title & author to win a copy!

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Have you
noticed the Puffin tweeting away? In the countdown to Christmas we’re giving
you a chance to WIN one of the books
on our Christmas list!

Nicola , Quizmas
Master in Chief, sets the clues around 10am and then you have until just 5pm to
tweet us the title and the author. Some are
easy-peasy, others are real whopsy-whifflers. Everyday one correct answer is
selected at random and its tweeter is posted a special-book-shaped prize!

If you’d
like to enter then pop over to @PuffinBooks
now for today’s clue and your chance to win.

Here are
some of our previous Q&As  – why not
test your family on Christmas day? Or we’d love to hear some of your ideas for
questions. Good luck and a very merry quizmas!

 

(p.s check out the gingerbread Rudolf from culinary genius Fi!)

 

 

 

1.    Dear Santa, the 1st book on my
Christmas list is the story of 1 demi-god hero

2.    Dear
Santa, the 2nd book on my Christmas list is the story of 2 most revolting people

3.    Dear
Santa, the 3rd book on my Christmas list features a boy who SHOULD’VE died on the Titanic and a girl who SHOULD’VE died in a plane

4.    Dear Santa, the 4th book on my Christmas
list is the story of the 4 March sisters

5.    Dear Santa, the 5th book on my Christmas
list is the story of 5 chocolate-loving kids

6.    Dear Santa, the 6th book on my
Christmas list is the story of 6 lost boys

7.    Dear Santa, the 7th book on my
Christmas list is a wheely funny wimpy story

8.     Dear Santa, the 8th book on my Christmas list is the story of 8 animals sent to a boy

9.     Dear Santa, the 9th book on my Christmas list is the story of the legacy of 9

10.    Dear Santa, the 10th book on my Xmas list is the story of a very peckish insect

11.    Dear Santa, the 11th book on my Xmas list is Mary Lennox’s tale 1st published in 1911.

12.    Dear Santa, the 12th book on my Xmas list is the story of a fowl 12-year-old

Answers  (no peeking, ducks) 1.  Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief by
Rick Riordan 2.The
Twits, Roald Dahl 3. TimeRiders, Alex Scarrow
4. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 6. Peter Pan, J.M.
Barrie  7.  Diary of a Wimpy Kid:The Third Whee, Jeff Kinneyl 8. Dear Zoo, Rod Campbell 9. The Rise of Nine, Pittacus Lore 10.The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 11.The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 12. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer