National Year of Reading, teachers' resources

Fabulous First Line Friday (25 May)

Alphabet Soup

To celebrate the National Year of Reading, we are sharing some first lines from books on our bookshelves. So, every Friday for the rest of the year we’re posting a fabulous first line here on Soup Blog.

Here’s today’s Fabulous First Line*:

When I was a kid I HATED gardening.

Do you want to read on? What do you think comes next?

(We’ll put the title of the book right at the end of this post so you can try to guess it first.)

*For the purposes of Fabulous First Line Friday, we’re counting the first line as the first line of chapter 1 in any book. So if there is an introduction or an author’s note or something before chapter 1, we don’t count that bit …
The book is How to Guzzle Your Garden by Jackie French.

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This post was added by Rebecca Newman. Rebecca is a children's writer and poet, and the editor of the Australian children's literary blog, Alphabet Soup. For more about Rebecca visit: rebeccanewman.net.au.