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10 best books like Carbonel: The King of the Cats (Barbara Sleigh): The Magic Pudding, Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, The Land of Green Ginger, Charlotte Sometimes, The Return of the Twelves, Elidor, The Starlight Barking, Time at the Top, The House of Arden, Thomasina

The Magic Pudding
AuthorNorman Lindsay
ISBN0140300988
"Gentlemen," said the Judge, "I must remind you that we require a Review!"

"We don't needs no Review," replied Sam rudely, "We just needs to get away from them rascally Puddin'-thieves." And he pointed to the Wombat and the Possum, lurking in the comment thread, who looked up with a guilty start.

"Ignore...
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
AuthorEsther Averill
ISBN1590170474
In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....
The Land of Green Ginger
AuthorNoel Langley
This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and...
Charlotte Sometimes
AuthorPenelope Farmer
ISBN1590172213
A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.

It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's...
The Return of the Twelves
AuthorPauline Clarke
ISBN0698201175
Beneath a floorboard in the old farmhouse into which his family has just moved, eight-year-old Max Morley discovers twelve time-worn wooden soldiers. Under his careful watch, the "Twelves" come to life, each possessing a name and a distinct personality. As Max soon learns, they share a history filled...
Elidor
AuthorAlan Garner
ISBN0152056246
A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football. Four ordinary things lead the Watson children on an extraordinary adventure to a magical land called Elidor. In pursuit of four ancient treasures, the forces of evil have crossed over into our world, and it falls to the Watson...
The Starlight Barking
AuthorDodie Smith
ISBN1405204125
Dodie Smith's The Hundred and One Dalmatians, later adapted by Disney, was declared a classic when first published in 1956. The Starlight Barking, Dodie's own long-forgotten sequel, is a thrilling new adventure for Pongo and his family. As the story opens, every living creature except dogs is gripped...
Time at the Top
AuthorEdward Ormondroyd
ISBN1930900198
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
The House of Arden
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1590172027
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...
Thomasina
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0930330935
From what I knew (or thought I knew) about this book, I’d expected an adventure story of cat who gets put down but manages to survive and find her way back to her girl—and a children’s story. But while it was that at one level, it was so much more, and certainly not a children’s story. It is the story...
The Cats of Seroster
AuthorRobert Westall
ISBN0330292390
This is one of those few childhood favourites that I don't seem to share with many people - but what's not to like about a historical fantasy with telepathic cats set in southern France?

Englishman Cam of Cambridge is on the move again after his clever thinking gets him accused of witchcraft....
The Little Bookroom
AuthorEleanor Farjeon
ISBN1590170482
In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful—and sometimes exceedingly silly—monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live...
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
AuthorNorman Hunter
ISBN0140367764
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.

The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
The Wind on the Moon
AuthorEric Linklater
ISBN1590171004
Winner of the Carnegie Medal

In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be," and her sister Dorinda adds helpfully, "Very often, when...
The Midnight Folk
AuthorJohn Masefield
ISBN0006724167
‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’

Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...
Mistress Masham's Repose
AuthorT.H. White
ISBN1590171039
"She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step...finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door...she went to look at the shell—but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it."

So ten-year-old Maria,...
Uncle
AuthorJ.P. Martin
ISBN1590172396
If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...
The Swish of the Curtain
AuthorPamela Brown
ISBN0340727071
My thanks to Steerforth Press/Pushkin Press and Netgalley for a review copy of this book.

The Swish of the Curtain is the first of the Blue Door series of books by Pamela Brown, first published in the 1940s. This is a series a goodreads friend of mine had been telling me about for years but I hadn’t...
The Peterkin Papers
AuthorLucretia P. Hale
ISBN1590172124
Before Amelia Bedelia and the Stupids there were the Peterkins. The Peterkin Papers collects all of Lucretia Hale’s beloved tales of a thoroughly silly family.

The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted...
A Dog So Small
AuthorPhilippa Pearce
ISBN0140302069
Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.

Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...
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