Top 25 GK Questions on Famous Books and Authors For Kids

Books play important roles in everyone’s life whether it’s children, adults or old one. Reading books helps us in every way. Books help young readers to go into the imaginative world especially when they read stories. Children love listening to stories from books and sometimes loved reading them on their own. In this article, children will gain knowledge about several famous books and their authors through general knowledge questions and answers for classes 1, 2, and 3 children.

Why Teaching Children GK About Books is Important?

Here are a few points that will help them after learning this GK:

• It’s important that you should introduce your children to books at an early age to help them to improve their reading skills.
• Reading books also helps young ones in their education and life.
• It also helps children to improve their language skills and books are the best things you can include in children’s diaries to build or improve their vocabulary.
• Giving them knowledge about books at an early age will help them to grow their general knowledge and basic knowledge about the subject.

25 General Knowledge Questions and Answers on Books and Authors for Kids

Growing knowledge about famous books and authors will help them to read more books. With these top 25 questions, they will have a big list of books that they definitely will love to read them. Let’s help children to learn the top 25 GK questions and answers on books’ names and their authors in a quiz format. We have made this lesson simpler for children so that they can remember it easily. All the questions will be in form of MCQ questions where they have to select the correct answer from the given options. Let’s look at quizzes on books and their authors:

Q1. Who was the author of the story How I Taught My Grandmother to Read?  

a) Sudha Murty
b) A.A. Milne
c) Anita Desai
d) Ruskin Bond

Q2. Which author wrote the Let’s Go Time Travelling book?  

a) R.K.Narayan
b) Subhadra Sen Gupta
c) Kalidas
d) Anita Desai

Q3. Which author wrote the book we the Children of India: The Preamble to our Constitution.?

a) Ruskin Bond
b) Leila Seth
c) A.A. Milne
d) Charles Dickens

Q4. Name the writer of the storied Village by the Sea.

a) Charles Dickens
b) John Keats
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Anita Desai

Q5. Name the author of Swami and Friends’ book.  

a) Ruskin Bond
b) Maurice Sendak
c) R.K. Narayan
d) Dr. Seuss

Q6. Who wrote the story of the Cherry Tree?

a) Ruskin Bond
b) Charles Dickens
c) John Keats
d) Rudyard Kipling

Q7. Name the writer of the book Malgudi Days.

a) Shakespeare
b) Ruskin Bond
c) Kalidas
d) R.K. Narayan

Q8. Who wrote the story of the Blue Umbrella?

a) Lord Byron
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Keats
d) Ruskin Bond

Q9. Name the author that said Child is the father of Man.

a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) Lord Byron
d) Shakespeare

Q10. Alice in Wonderland book was written by which author?  

a) Lewis Carroll
b) Thomas Hardy
c) Victor Hugo
d) Charles Dickens

Q11. Name the writer that wrote the famous children’s book The Jungle Book.  

a) Enid Blyton
b) Rita Williams-Garcia
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Dr. Seuss

Q12. Name the author of the famous series called Noddy for kids. 

a) Eric Carle
b) J.K. Rowling
c) William Shakespeare
d) Enid Blyton

Q13. Name the author of the book Winnie the Pooh.

a) T. S. Eliot
b) Rudyard Kipling
c)  A. A. Milne
d) Maurice Sendak

Q14. From the following name the very famous English novel for children that is written by Charles Dickens?

a) The Big Book of Berenstain Bears
b) One Crazy Summer
c) David Copperfield
d) Jumanji

Q15. The famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written by which writer?

a) Maurice Sendak
b) Roald Dahl
c) William Shakespeare
d) J.K. Rowling

Q16. The story of the Cat in the Hat is written by which author? 

a)  T. S. Eliot
b) A. A. Milne
c) Dr. Seuss
d) Maurice Sendak

Q17. The story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar was written by which famous writer?

a) Eric Carle
b) Charles Dickens
c) Roald Dahl
d) C. S. Lewis

Q18. Name the author that wrote the book The Chronicles of Narnia.  

a) Lewis Carroll
b) Charles Dickens
c) J.K. Rowling
d) C. S. Lewis

Q19. From the given list name the writer who created the book, Harry Potter.

a)  J.K. Rowling
b) Rudyard Kipling
c) Charles Dickens
d) William Shakespeare

Q20. Name the writer who wrote the Panchatantra.

a) Vishnu Sharma
b) Vishakhadatta
c) Surdas
d) Kalidas

Q21. Name the writer who wrote Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure.

a) Kalidas
b) Surdas
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Vishnu Sharma

Q22. Name the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days.

a) Jules Verne
b) Surdas
c) Vishakhadatta
d) Vishnu Sharma

Q23. Name the author of the story Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.

a) Kalidas
b) Surdas
c) Vishakhadatta
d) Jules Verne

Q24. Who was the writer of The Three Musketeers?

a) Kalidas
b) Vishnu Sharma
c) Alexander Dumas
d) Surdas

Q25. Who wrote the story of Doctor Dolittle?

a) Kalidas
b) Surdas
c) Vishakhadatta
d) Hugh Lofting

Answers:

Here are the top 25 answers to the above questions on books and their authors. Check out to see if your young ones have answered it correctly.

We hope children have learned a lot of names of authors and the books written by them. This lesson will definitely help them in their education and personal life. They will even get more confidence in life by gaining more knowledge about various books at an early age. This knowledge will also help them to participate in any debates or discussions. This exciting quiz will create more interest in them reading these books one by one. Reading is the best skill that you should develop in children’s life. This not only helps them to improve their reading skills but it will then improve their English language and vocabulary skills.

Suhana Dessai

Suhana holds a master’s degree in computer and from the University of Goa. She has around 3 years of experience in various fields of writing and editing. By profession, she is a freelancer Content Writer. As an associate editor at SudivGuide, Suhana edits and ensures the articles are aligned with the website’s editorial standards.