Best Opening Lines from Children's Books II
Can you name the books whose first lines are:
1. One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry.
2. Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.
3. Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child.
4. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
5. Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
6. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.
7. You don't know about me without you have read a book called "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.
8. Marley was dead, to begin with.
9. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette
10. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
11. Once upon a time, a little girl named Laura traveled in a covered wagon across the giant prairie.
12. The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfield lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rigged peaks tower over the valley below.
13. It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
14. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits .......
15. In the great forest a little elephant was born .........
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