40 Book Trivia Questions for Kids

1. What is the narrow outside edge of a book where its pages are joined called?

2. Which page near the front presents the book's full title and the writer's name?

3. What is the removable paper cover wrapped around many hardback books?

4. Which papers inside a hardback help attach the cover boards to the pages?

5. A short message at the front says the book is for a special person. What is it?

6. Which list tells readers which books and other sources a writer used?

7. A small number in the text points to an extra note at the bottom of the page. What is the note called?

8. What is a section of extra material added at the end of a book called?

9. What do we call the person who writes a book?

10. Who creates pictures to go with the words in a book?

11. What is the voice that tells a story called?

12. Which story word means where and when the events happen?

13. Which word means the connected events that make up a story?

14. Which shelf label means stories created from the writer's imagination?

15. Which kind of writing gives information about real people, places or events?

16. What do we call one of the main numbered or named divisions of a book?

17. Which trained library worker helps readers find information and choose books?

18. What is a library's searchable list of its books and other materials called?

19. Which code helps you find a library book's place on a shelf?

20. In library language, what does it mean to renew a borrowed book?

21. You want a library to save a book for you when it is available. What request do you place?

22. What service lets your library request a book from a different library?

23. What is a recording of a book being read aloud called?

24. What is a book in a digital form that you read on a screen called?

25. What kind of book has a stiff, rigid cover?

26. What kind of printed book has a flexible paper cover?

27. What is the craft of fastening pages together and adding a cover called?

28. What do we call the draft text a writer prepares before a book is published?

29. Which job involves checking a book's proof pages for printing and spelling errors?

30. Which reading and writing system uses patterns of raised dots?

31. What is the historical name for a book with leaves joined along one side, rather than rolled up?

32. What is a long piece of writing material stored rolled up called?

33. What kind of book tells the true story of someone's life, written by another person?

34. A book tells the true story of its writer's own life. What kind of book is it?

35. What do we call a book that collects selected poems or stories by different writers?

36. Which reference book explains the meanings of words?

37. Which short traditional story often uses talking animals to teach a lesson?

38. Which ancient Greek storyteller is traditionally linked with a famous collection of fables?

39. The fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen came from which country?

40. Which pair of first names belongs to the Brothers Grimm, collectors of fairy tales?