Opening Lines of Children's Books

“In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.”

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”

‘All children, except one, grow up.’

What book is this picture from?

“First of all, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a diary.”

‘If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.’

“Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

Words. I'm surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate. Mississippi. Neopolitan

“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”

It's hard to talk to trees. We're not big on chit-chat.

'I'm not an ordinary 10-year-old kid. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming on playgrounds.

“Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong.”

'Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. If you're reading this because you think you might be one, close this book now.

"‘Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number 4 Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.’

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.” (Chronicles of Narnia)