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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJames Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot · 272 pages
A collection of the author's stories for children, including "Moses the Kitten," "The Market Square Dog," and "Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb."
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
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way
Alice Schertle · 38 pages
A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam.
Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco · 32 pages
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
I Went Walking
Sue Williams · 30 pages
In this walk around the farmyard, a small child relates all the animals and colors that can be seen.
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 237 pages
The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities
Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey · 54 pages
Little Bear and Sal both go berrying with their mothers, but after sitting down to rest, they each end up following the other one's mother.
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.
Moses the Kitten
James Herriot, Peter Barrett · 32 pages
A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm, and when he recovers turns out to have a very unusual idea about the identity of his mother.
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Doreen Cronin · 32 pages
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown · 32 pages
Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.
Ox-Cart Man
Donald Hall · 40 pages
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl · 96 pages
The main character of Fantastic Mr. Fox is an extremely clever anthropomorphized fox named Mr. Fox. He lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from the cruel, brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Finally tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by bur
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson · 69 pages
A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell flowers is entered in a bullfight.
All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon · 40 pages
Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.
Pancakes for Breakfast
Tomie dePaola · 32 pages
A little old lady's attempts to have pancakes for breakfast are hindered by a scarcity of supplies and the participation of her pets.
All the Places to Love
Patricia MacLachlan
A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.
Old Bear
Kevin Henkes
When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.
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.
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright · 130 pages
Children's novel set in 1930s rural Wisconsin. First published in 1938. A story about the various things that happen during the summer when Garnet Linden is nine.
The Cow Loves Cookies
Karma Wilson · 40 pages
While all the other animals on the farm enjoy eating their regular food, the cow chooses to eat the one thing that she loves best.
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen · 32 pages
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats · 32 pages
Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, Keats' story of a young boy experiencing the year's first snowfall has delighted millions of readers. Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season’s first snowfall. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and sno
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton · 48 pages
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.