Books & Authors Quiz: Children's Literature and Famous Fables

The Panchatantra, a collection of animal fables in Sanskrit arranged in five books, is traditionally said to have been composed by Vishnu Sharma to teach practical statecraft to the dull witted sons of a king.

The Jataka tales form part of the Buddhist canon in Pali and number over five hundred.

The Panchatantra was first rendered into Middle Persian, and from that version it was turned into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna, the two names being those of the jackals of the first book.

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April, and the International Board on Books for Young People chose that date for International Children's Book Day; the same body gives the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the little Nobel of children's literature.

Mowgli the boy raised by wolves, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and Shere Khan the tiger are the characters of The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling and set in the forests of central India.

Ruskin Bond, who has lived in Mussoorie for most of his life, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for the collection Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.

Anant Pai, known to generations of readers as Uncle Pai, began Amar Chitra Katha in 1967 after noticing that Indian children knew European fairy tales better than the stories of their own country, and in 1980 he launched the children's magazine Tinkle.

Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky belongs to the same world.

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

Sukumar Ray wrote Abol Tabol, a collection of nonsense rhymes that is a landmark of Bengali children's writing, along with the story HaJaBaRaLa and the play Chalachittachanchari.