Famous First Lines of Novels #5 (Children’s Books)

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

Here is Edward Bear, coming down the stairs now, bump bump bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin

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.

They were not railway children to begin with.

Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.

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

Once upon a time, a little girl named Laura traveled in a covered wagon across the giant prairie.

It all began with William’s aunt, who was in a good temper that morning, and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer’s.

Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, 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.