From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King
“Nicholas Vargas had imagined a panoply of terrible punishments his dad might impose after he’d stayed out all night with Jules and Laurie.”
“Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren’t for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn’t look out the window of the school bus.”
From Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot
“It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
“Nicholas Vargas had never been all that good at sports.”
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: A Giant Problem
“This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse.”
From Kate DiCamillo's The Tale of Despereaux
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
“It was an afternoon in late September.”
From Richard and Florence Atwater's Mr. Popper's Penguins
“This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.”
From C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy
“Reporting to work that fateful morning at my office (that is to say, the office of Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian, my fictitious employer), I wore a perfectly fitted princess-style dress of mistletoe-green faille, with wide organza collar and matching hat on my tasteful russet coif (wig), and, on the appropriate finger, a wedding ring.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
“There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
“This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
“Erik’s heart hammered in his chest as though Thor himself were tunneling out of his rib cage.”
From Christina Uss’ Erik Vs. Everything
“’Miss Meshle’ said Mrs. Tupper as she took my empty plate away, ‘if ye ‘ave time to set an’ talk a while…’”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
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