1. What is Tom Thumbs wife’s name? Tom Thumb appears a few times in stories by Beatrix Potter, his wife — Hunca Munca is his partner in crime in “Two Bad Mice” (Via WiredForBooks.Org)
2. What did Theodore Geisel feel his greatest work was? Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss, of course) once said it was not a book or an illustration, but the Lion Wading Pool at Wild Animal Park in San Diego, which he donated in 1973. (Via BBC News)
3. What Children’s book inspired a video, a ballet and an opera? Maurice Sendak has written more than 80 books. He has won almost every important prize in children’s literature, from the Caldecott Medal, to the Hans Christian Andersen Award, to the American Library Association’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. (He calls the National Medal of Arts “my first grown-up award.”) , one of the best-selling children’s books of all time — “Where The Wild Things Are” has spawned not only a video, but an opera, a ballet, countless stuffed toys, and generations of four-year-olds who call themselves Max after the King of All Wild Things. In the last few years, Sendak has branched out to designing sets and costumes, working on videos and a children’s television series, and founding a children’s theater company, The Night Kitchen. (Via FactMonster.Com)

Good guesses. I will be doing one of these a month leading up to the big give-away in December.