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Children’s Book Quiz
Famous first lines from favorite children’s books.
Can you name the title and author?
STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS
1. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made
mischief of one kind and another…
2. Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching
an egg:
3. In the great forest a little elephant is
born.
4. At the foot of an old, old wharf lives
the cutest, silliest little tugboat you ever saw.
5. Oh, how Peter wished he could whistle!
6. Everybody knows the story of the Three
Little Pigs.
7. Martha was very fond of making split pea
soup.
8. In an old house in Paris that was covered
with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
9. In the light of the moon a little egg lay
on a leaf.
10. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard were looking for
a place to live.
11. I am a city child I live at the Plaza.
STORIES FOR OLDER READERS
1. Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking
care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
2. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
3. “Where’s Papa going with that
ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table
for breakfast.
4. Brian Robeson stared out the window of
the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.
5. Mayo Cornelius Higgins raised his arms
high to the sky and spread them wide.
6. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite
Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking
child ever seen.
7. Harriet was trying to explain to Sport
how to play town.
8. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privit
Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank
you very much.
9. Claudia knew that she could never pull
off the old-fashioned kind of running away.
10. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs
now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher
Robin.
11. All children, except one, grow up.
12. It was a dark and stormy night.
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