From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods
“Twig sat on the floor between his mother’s knees, and curled his toes in the thick fleece of the tilder rug.”
“Hey, don’t touch that!”
From Steve Behling’s The Pirate Angel, the Taking Tree, and Captain Rabbit
“It was a sunny spring morning, but there was murder in the air.”
From Andrew Clements’ About Average
“In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an ape.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
First Sentence of a New World 