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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote · 45 pages
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one ol
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 Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore · 32 pages
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Charles M. Schulz · 192 pages
Surrounded by other children with extremely commercial ideas about Christmas, Charlie Brown struggles to understand the true spirit of the holiday.
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.
How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn · 495 pages
**This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith.** The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the **mid nineteenth century**. The
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 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.
Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson · 127 pages
A collection of comic strips following the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes.
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
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson · 69 pages
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry · 37 pages
Wonderful Christmas story, you laugh and cry at the same time, tender, inspiring, and the best of it is, you know it's all a storm in a teacup. What they have is priceless.
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden · 208 pages
Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's
A Christmas Story
Jean Shepherd · 98 pages
A young boy really, really, really wants a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas but his parents cannot be convinced.
When We Were Very Young
A.A. Milne · 102 pages
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
The Flying Classroom
Erich Kastner · 155 pages
Martin and his friends prepare for the end of the school term and the coming Christmas holiday, but they are all in for surprises, sadness, trouble, and a secret that will change everything.
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge · 332 pages
A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
The Hill of Dreams
Arthur Machen · 162 pages
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist: