Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag

I found this Tag on Dreamland Book Blog and just *had* to participate!

1. Find an author’s name or title with the letter Z in it.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2. Find a book with a key on it.

Couldn’t find one at all, not even in our library crate!

3. Find something on your bookshelf that’s not a book.

– three things! Family pic, temple pic, lamp.

4. Find the oldest book on your shelf.

Well, if you’re going by owning date, they’re all the oldest – most of them bought around the same time when we had to start replacing our library when we lost our home to flooding back in May/June. But if you’re going for publication date, then that would probably be “Sense and Sensibility”.

5. Find a book with a girl on the cover.

Half Upon a Time, by James Riley – quite a few books I could have picked from actually.

6. Find a book with a boy on the cover. – I’ll go with an old favorite of mine – “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, with Ponyboy Curtis on the cover.

Find a book that has an animal on it. – Murder in the Secret Garden, by Ellery Adams. Book 3 in the Book Retreat Mystery series.

Find a book with a male protagonist. – Do I have to pick just one for this? I seem to have way more of those than I expected. I’m gonna go with “Batman: NightWalker” by Marie Lu, a DC Icons book.

Find a book with only words on it. – As in no pictures, no art, no nothing? Do books like that exist?

Find a book with illustrations in it. –

I’m gonna go with another Harry Potter book on this one – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. All her chapters have illustrations above the titles.

Find a book with gold lettering –

“Hound of the Baskervilles and other stories” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Gold was on the spine, but it still counts, right?

Find a diary (true or false). – Hmm… no diaries on my shelf.

Find a book written by someone with a common name (like Smith). –

I think I can only go back to Ellery Adams.

Find a book that has a close-up of something on it. – Writer’s Guide to Character traits.

Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period.

That would be Sense and Sensibility again, I think. **after checking my bookshelf again** Actually, I’m wrong!

The beginning of “The Autobiography of Santa Claus” by Jeff Guin – the story begins about 2-3 centuries after Christ, when Saint Nicholas is believed to have been born.

Find a hardcover book without a jacket

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them, by Newt Scamander (JK Rowling)

Find a teal/turquoise-colored book –

Disney Frozen Storybook Collection.

Find a book with stars on it.

Do celebrities count? They’re stars, right?

How about a star notebook?

Find a non-YA book.

Several titles could fit for this one, but I’ll go with Danger in the Shadows by Dee Henderson.

Find the longest book you own. “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien.

From “Note on the Text”: “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.” Just how many pages? Well, if you count the appendices and the index, it is a whopping 1178 pages!!!! But if you really only want to count the novel itself, well, that’s 1031 pages. Still the longest book I own. 😀

find the shortest book you own – Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

Find a book with multiple POVs – The House of Hades by Rick Riordan.. Heroes of Olympus series book four. (Confession, I had to go to the library crate for this one. But hey – it’s right in front of my bookshelf, so that counts, right?)

Find a shiny book. – I’ll go with the Disney Frozen Storybook collection again. I mean… the cover speaks for itself… Sparkly!!!

Find a book with flowers on it. – Who can forget Mary Engelbright? “The Art and the Artist”.

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