Here are the first lines of some well-known children's books.
Can you name the book and author?
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“ Ho Chi Minh City in the Summer. Sweltering by anyone's standard. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been willing to put up with such discomfort if something extremely important had not been at stake. Important to the plan.”
“If you didn't know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcases at Damocles Dock, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure….But of course you would be dead wrong.”
“The jar has something floating inside it. Something awful. Something grey and fleshy. Something foul. Something not alive but not dead either.”
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake . There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas . That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.”
“I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. July28th 1988. Only now can I tell the whole extraordinary story, the true story. Kensuke made me promise that I would say nothing, nothing at all, until at least ten years had passed.”
“Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.”
“There's not much call for private detectives in Fulham. The day it all started was a bad one. Business was so slack it was falling down all around us.”
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”