| Line | Title | Author |
| 'In the great green room, there was a telephone...' | |
| 'It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.' | |
| 'The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.' | |
| 'Here is Edward Bear, coming down the stairs now, bump bump bump...' | |
| 'Late one Christmas Eve after the town has gone to sleep, the boy boards the mysterious train that waits for him...' | |
| 'At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows...' | |
| 'Where's Papa going with that axe?' | |
| 'These two very old people are the mother and father of Mr. Bucket.' | |
| 'One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg.' | |
| 'When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.' | |
| 'The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING!' and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP!' so he was sent to bed without eating | |
| 'Once there was a tree.... and she loved a little boy.' | |