For World Book Day, and to celebrate reading for pleasure, have a go at our just-for-fun quiz!
How many well known children's books can you identify from the opening lines below? We'll add the answers at the end of March - and anyone who leaves a comment below will be entered into a free draw to win this brilliant selection of middle-grade fiction!
1. If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
2. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
3. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
4. 'Where's Papa going with that axe?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
5. If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the crossroads.
6. Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a lot of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
7. Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.
8. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him "WILD THING!" and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!!" so he was sent to bed without eating anything.
9. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
10. When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress.
11. My earliest memories are a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables, and rats that scampered along the beams above my head.
12. Once there was a little girl called Sophie, and she was having tea with her Mummy in the kitchen.
13. First of all, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a diary.
14. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misslethwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
15. All children, except one, grows up.
Comments (4)
Nuzhat A - 27th February 2022
What an awesome set of opening lines! We would LOVE to have these in our school so our children can enjoy them as much as I do :-)Lynda T - 26th February 2022
Great selection of opening lines - will definitely share this for World Book Day!Anna T - 23rd February 2022
Some absolutely classic opening lines! Bressingham Primary would love these books!Claire S - 23rd February 2022
Great selection that we would love for the school library. I can guess quite a few.Leave A Reply
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