21 Apr GIVE YOUR CHILDREN’S BOOK AN OPENING THAT GRABS THE READER

"Marley was dead, to begin with."

This short, punchy line is the first sentence in A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens.

But Lewis Carroll took his time with the opening of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'" No matter the length of the opening, masterful authors