First lines of books quiz:

Here’s a little quiz for you:

Do you recognize these first lines from some famous children’s books? Come in to the Question Desk and tell us what books at least two of these first lines are from and win a free pencil! Lynn H.



1. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

2. First of all, let me get something straight: This is a journal, not a diary.

3. Sophie couldn’t sleep.

4. If someone had asked Jared Grace what jobs his brother and sister would have when they grew up, he would have had no trouble replying.

5. Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

6. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

7. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him “WILD THING!”

8. Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs.

9. Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.