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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Bill Watterson · 254 pages
Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story. Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever create
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter · 384 pages
Here are the delightful stories of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and all the other Beatrix Potter favorites collected for the first time in one volume.
The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud
Simon Boughton · 320 pages
Anthology of classic picture books from the 20th Century. The selections range from concept books and wordless books to picture books and short read-aloud stories, and represent the complete array of childhood themes and reading needs: ABCs, number and color books, stories about going to bed and going to school; tales about growing up, siblings, parents, and grandparents; animal stories, fantasies
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary · 158 pages
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. The book was released
Dance at Grandpa's
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 40 pages
Summary, A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Christmas in Noisy Village
Astrid Lindgren · 30 pages
The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne · 160 pages
A.A. Milne's Pooh stories need no introduction; they have been loved by generations of children and their parents ever since they were first published in 1926. In his autobiography, Milne wrote: 'The animals in the stories came for the most part from the nursery. My collaborator [his wife] had already given them individual voices, their owner by constant affection had given them the twist in th
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein · 176 pages
If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wa
Let Me Hold You Longer
Karen Kingsbury · 32 pages
The Snowman
Raymond Briggs · 32 pages
When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.
The Moon Over Star
Dianna Hutts Aston
On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick · 534 pages
ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Jan Brett · 32 pages
A young woman's true love sends her extravagant gifts on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson · 127 pages
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers
Twelve Kinds of Ice
Ellen Bryan Obed
From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Gloria Houston · 32 pages
An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.
The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore · 32 pages
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever!
Richard Scarry · 288 pages
In Our Mothers' House
Patricia Polacco
Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
Jacqueline Woodson · 31 pages
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak · 42 pages