Can You Name the Children’s Book From the Opening Line?

Olivia James

Think back to your childhood, to the nights when mom or dad might have lied down with you and read you a story until you fell asleep, or the first time you read a chapter book by yourself, or even the moment you bonded with your big brother or sister as they read to you. Children’s books hold poweShow More

Take a trip back to your childhood and see how well you can remember those books that charmed your early reading days. Not only that, we’re going to make it a little bit more challenging; we’ll give you nothing but the first sentence of the book, and you have to tell us which book it is. Dig deep back into those early memories and see how well your first literary experiences have stuck. It’s time to play some kid lit trivia.

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Which book starts with the famous line, "It was a dark and stormy night."

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

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Can You Name the Children’s Book From the Opening Line?

Which book starts with the famous line, "It was a dark and stormy night."

We'll give you a softball after that last one. Which book begins, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"?

In a surprisingly dark opening, this book asks, "Where's Papa going with that ax?"

This one's truly a classic: "All children grow up, except one."

This sweet picture book has the familiar opening lines, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines."

Everyone read this book in preschool or kindergarten, but do you remember it now? "In the light of the moon lay an egg on a leaf" is its first line.

You will never guess which book starts like this: "I’d never given much thought to how I would die — though I’d had reason enough in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."

You'll chuckle at this one, but do you know which book it begins? "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

This book is a wild one. Which book starts with, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips"?

Which macabre book begins, "If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book"?

If you're like most of us, you had to read this book in high school English class: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

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Which book starts with the famous line, "It was a dark and stormy night."

We'll give you a softball after that last one. Which book begins, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"?

In a surprisingly dark opening, this book asks, "Where's Papa going with that ax?"

This one's truly a classic: "All children grow up, except one."

This sweet picture book has the familiar opening lines, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines."

Everyone read this book in preschool or kindergarten, but do you remember it now? "In the light of the moon lay an egg on a leaf" is its first line.

You will never guess which book starts like this: "I’d never given much thought to how I would die — though I’d had reason enough in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."

You'll chuckle at this one, but do you know which book it begins? "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

This book is a wild one. Which book starts with, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips"?

Which macabre book begins, "If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book"?

If you're like most of us, you had to read this book in high school English class: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

Last question - how would you rate this quiz?

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