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This (along with some of my other #FirstLineoftheWeek posts) recalls this great opening from Joanne Harris's Runemarks (2008):
Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again.
@Joannechocolat
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It was a hundred and forty years since the Wolf had swallowed the sun and Zac was trying very hard to sleep.
- Catherine Fisher, Starspill, @FireflyPress
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It was a hundred and forty years since the Wolf had swallowed the sun and Zac was trying very hard to sleep.
- Catherine Fisher, Starspill, @FireflyPress
#FirstLineoftheWeek.
"I'm making you both Hall Monitors," Principal Wombat said, though she quickly added, "This isn't because you're monitor lizards."
- @patrick_ness, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody (@WalkerBooksUK, 5 Sept)
#FirstLineoftheWeek. (Actually the dedication.)
To the favourite of my two children.
- Adam Kay's dedication to Dexter Proctor: The Ten-Year-Old Doctor 12 Sept @PuffinBooks
(I wonder if they are still arguing about it?)
#FirstLineoftheWeek.
"The morning the Merry Men came for Old Rosie, Clem was trying to put a hat on a fox."
- Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart, out 15 Aug, @KidsBloomsbury
@lexcroucher
#FirstLineoftheWeek.
Aliya Sultan did not understand why her grandfather thought that having afternoon tea with sphinxes was 'safe and harmless fun'.
- Laila Rifaat, Aliya Aboard the Time Train
Out 1 August 2024 @chickenhsebooks
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It was three minutes to eleven on a blustery summer morning and Harry Houdini was about to jump.
- Emma Carroll, The Houdini Inheritance, 4 July. @FaberChildrens @emcarrollauthor
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Tig had no reason to suspect that the letters would contain the start of something - and the end of everything else.
- Eve Wersocki Morris, Forest of Forbidden Magic, out 4 July. @HachetteKids @MzEvieMo
(A dramatic first line that prompts lots of questions.)
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Cally watched the last of Grandma swirl and gurgle down the drain.
- Fiona Herbert, shortlisted this week for the Kelpies prize for new Scottish writing. The opening of the first five chapters of a book. @DiscoverKelpies
I adore #FirstLineoftheWeek so I’m thrilled the opening line of The Wanderdays got its moment in the sun.
I find first lines come to me fairly intuitively. I’ve never had to rewrite the opening sentence of a story. As for the rest of it, well…it’s all rewrites!
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Bad news was forbidden in the Wanderday household until after breakfast.
- @ClareFPovey The Wanderdays: Journey to Fantome Island. Out 6 June @Usborne
(Inspires curiosity about imminent bad news as it sets the scene: family breakfast. It's a good rule too.)
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Bad news was forbidden in the Wanderday household until after breakfast.
- @ClareFPovey The Wanderdays: Journey to Fantome Island. Out 6 June @Usborne
(Inspires curiosity about imminent bad news as it sets the scene: family breakfast. It's a good rule too.)
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It was a hot sunny day on Tricky Dragon Lane and someone had been cursing magical Londoners.
- Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse by Cathy Fitzgerald 2 June @FarshoreBooks
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Mayowa Althea Howard was eight years old when she first jumped on a book.
- Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo 2 June @KidsBloomsbury
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It was a day like a freshly peeled orange: bright and zesty and sweet.
- Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea by Pari Thomson 23 May @MacmillanKidsUK @PariThomson
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The boy knew even before entering the house that this was the day they’d warned him about.
- Code Name Kingfisher by Liz Kessler 23 May @simonkids_UK @lizkesslerbooks
Great first lines don't come along every day, so #FirstLineoftheWeek will now be on Thursdays
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