“Down the dark dark staircase there was a dark dark cellar. And in the dark dark cellar…. Some skeletons lived.”

Janet and Allan Ahlberg

“Yo ho ho and a bottle of Rum”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Lewis Carroll

“Never grow up… always down.”

Roald Dahl

“The tiger didn’t take just one sandwich. He took all the sandwiches on the plate and swallowed them with one big mouthful.”

Judith Kerr

“Every night he has stolen fish and chips and a cup of stolen tea for supper. Then he swings a big stolen sack over his shoulder and goes off to work, stealing things.”

Janet and Allan Ahlberg

“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”

The Brothers Grimm/ Charles Perrault