How well do you know your kids’ storybooks?
IN HONOUR of Book Week, the annual week-long celebration of books and their authors held across the nation, here’s a fun quiz for parents and children (and those who simply love stories).
Can you name these popular children’s books just by their first sentence?
1 In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.
2 Once upon a time there were four little rabbits and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.
3 In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived 12 little girls in two straight lines. 4 Here is the blue sheep. 5 Once up a time, there was a pair of pants.
6 The witch had a cat and a very tall hat ...
7 First of all, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a diary.
8 In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon.
9 Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
10 The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.
11 Little Nutbrown Hare, who was going to bed, held on tight to Big Nutbrown Hare’s very long ears.
12 If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
13 Mrs Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow ... 14 All children, except one, grow up.
15 “Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. 16 “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
17 The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
18 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
19 Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
20 These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket.
21 Once there was a little girl called Sophie.
22 Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.
23 A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood.
24 We moved on the Tuesday before Labor Day.
25 It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.