Round 3 – First lines from children’s books

1) “The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it”

2) “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it”

3) “One fine day, right at the beginning of the Easter holidays, four children and a dog travelled by train together”

4) “The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home”

5) “Roger, aged 7, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zig-zags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for part of the summer holidays”

6) “The little green book was very dog-eared. Ruth lay prone on the floor, the book propped up on the fender, studying intently a photograph of a blurry-faced woman riding a horse”

7) “The Fossil sisters lived in the Cromwell Road. At that end of it which is farthest away from the Brompton Road, and yet sufficiently near it to be taken to look at the dolls’ houses in the Victoria and Albert every wet day.”

8) “Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had a happy life”

9) “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said that she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen”

10) “Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number 4 Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much”

1) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

2) Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C S Lewis

3) Five Go to Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton

4) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

5) Swallow and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

6) Fly-by-Night by K M Peyton

7) Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (plus 1 for spelling her surname correctly)

8) James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

9) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling

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