Author's devices-the hook.

"There was once a gaggle of mountains, tall and proud, each with a hat of snow."

Which type of hook does this story use?"Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.It looked more like a prison than a school..."

"Jesse was always finding bones in the great bog-oak field where they dug the peat for the winter fires."

Ever had the feeling your life's been flushed down the toilet?

"He was especially tired of having to live in the same house as that grizzly old grunion of a Grandma. Looking after her all by himself was hardly the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning."

Which type of hook does this story use?"Once there were four children whose names were Peter,Susan,Edmund and Lucy."

"Mr Fox crept up the dark tunnel to the mouth of his hole. He poked his long handsome face out into the night and sniffed once."

"Molly!" Maria shouted to her sister. "Would you please shut that window..."

"I stopped yelling and started happily slurping my way through an ice cream."

"A thousand miles away, in a country east of the jungle and south of the mountains nations, there lived a Firework-maker called Lalchand and his daughter Lila..."

"Mr Stink stank. He also stunk."

A long time ago, when there were dragons and wicked witches and knights in armour and fairy tales were true, there lived a beautiful princess called Princess Amanda."

"When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself."

"Laura's little brother George was four weeks old when it happened."