1. Enid Blyton

2. Roald Dahl

3. Anne Fine

4. Dick King-Smith

5. Michael Morpurgo

6. Terry Pratchett

7. Philip Pullman

8. Why do you think these people are significant children’s authors?
What is it about their work that makes them so popular?

9. Who is your favourite author?
What is it that you really like about their books?

10. See if you can work out which story openings are description of characters, description of setting, action, dialogue or a question.

11. night before my twelfth
I disappeared on the
night before my twelfth
birthday.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
by Michael Morpurgo

12. When I was four months
old, my mother died
suddenly and my
father was left to look
after me all by himself.
Danny The Champion
Of The World
by Roald Dahl

13. Once there were four
children whose names
were Peter, Susan,
Edmund and Lucy.
The Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis

14. drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses
The hottest day of the
summer so far was
drawing to a close and a
drowsy silence lay over
the large, square houses
of Privet Drive.
Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix
by JK Rowling

15. in a country east of the jungle and south of the mountains,
A thousand miles ago,
in a country east of the jungle
and south of the mountains,
there lived a Firework-Maker
called Lalchand and his
daughter Lila.
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter
by Phillip Pullman

16. Peter crouched over the fire, stirring the embers
so that he sparks
swarmed up like imps on
the rocky walls of hell.
Count Karlstein
by Phillip Pullman

17. on Saturday morning. “So don’t get up to mischief.”
“I’m going shopping in
the village,” George’s
mother said to George
on Saturday morning. “So
be a good boy and
don’t get up to mischief.”
George’s Marvellous Medicine
by Roald Dahl

18. your life’s been flushed
Ever had the feeling
your life’s been flushed
down the toilet?
The Toilet of Doom
by Michael Lawrence