From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
“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
“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
“It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot sunshine or the hard winds.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The First Four Years
“Sunday afternoon was clear, and the snow-covered prairie sparkled in the sunshine.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: These Happy Golden Years
“One evening at supper, Pa asked, ‘How would you like to work in town, Laura?'”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Little Town on the Prairie
“In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.”
From Roald Dahl’s The Witches
“The mowing machine’s whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: The Long Winter
“Laura was washing the dishes one morning when old Jack, lying in the sunshine on the doorstep, growled to tell her that someone was coming.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: On the Banks of Plum Creek
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the woods of Wisconsin.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods
First Sentence of a New World 