Opening Line | Book |
These two very old people are the father and mother of | |
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers | |
Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had a happy life | |
When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly | |
The last time we saw Charlie he was riding high above his home town | |
Mr Hoppy lived in a small flat high up in a tall concrete building. | |
Not far from where I live there is a queer old empty wooden house | |
In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks | |
The farm next to ours is owned by Mr and Mrs Gregg | |
Sophie couldn't sleep | |
Little Billy's Mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do | |
What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays | |
My father, Harald Dahl, was a Norwegian | |
'I'm going shopping in the village,' | |
In the biggest, brownest, muddiest river in Africa. | |
Down in the valley there were three farms | |
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