Mrs. Peter Rabbit
10 best books like Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Thornton W. Burgess): A Taste for Rabbit, Miss Bianca, Rhubarb, Survival at Sea, Freddy the Detective, The Tale of Pigling Bland, Perloo The Bold, Basil in Mexico, Ace: The Very Important Pig, Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll
| Author | Linda Zuckerman |
| ISBN | 0439869773 |
In the tradition of WATERSHIP DOWN comes a brilliant novel about foxes, rabbits, and the cold calculation that leads to war.
Imagine a world in which there are no people, but foxes are civilized. They wear clothes, they fight, they elect corrupt officials. They eat all kinds of things, but only...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0316783102 |
Miss Bianca, the elegant mouse Chairwoman of the famed Prisoners' Aid Society, drew in her breath. "The prisoner," she said gravely, "is a little girl of eight. She has been kidnapped by the wicked Grand Duchess and is imprisoned in the Diamond Palace." Careful plans for the rescue are laid, but even...
| Author | Stephen Cosgrove |
| ISBN | 0843138246 |
Stephen Cosgrove's Serendipity series has a niche all its own in the virtually endless field of children's literature; a tiny niche, but it's definitely there and belongs to no other book or series. The serene sincerity of these books is matchless, their emotion deep as a sweet-water well, and the combination...
| Author | Edward Packard |
| ISBN | 0553227688 |
Survival at Sea is the 16th Choose Your Own Adventure book and is written by Edward Packard. It has Dr. Nera Vivaldi from CYOA #7: The Third Planet from Altair/Message from Space (depending on the book edition) in it. This book is unique in the series in that it focuses quite a bit on the illustrations by...
Reading this book hot on the tail of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair was just a confirmation of the magical pleasure that can be found in books. One minute, I can be sitting with Nina Sankovitch in her smelly purple chair, thinking deep thoughts about the meaning of life and the things that give it substance,...
The Tale of Pigling Bland
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247846 |
The Tale of Pigling Bland was published the year the Beatrix Potter was married and settled down to farming life for good. She had already been keeping pigs and she sketched them for this story, using her own farmyard as the setting. One little black pig was a household pet and features as the "perfectly...
Newbery Medalist Avi presents a most unlikely hero in this compelling fantasy. Now repackaged with a great new look.
A scholarly, shy member of the rabbit-like Montmers, Perloo is content sipping myrtle tea and reading his history books in his warm burrow. Until the day Perloo's quiet life...
| Author | Eve Titus |
| ISBN | 0070649006 |
The famous sleuth of Mousedom!
Basil of Baker Street continues his brilliant detective career as he solves three difficult cases, one right after the other:
"The Case of the Counterfeit Cheese"--in which mousedom is terrified as mice crack their teeth on phony cheese bits made of...
Ace: The Very Important Pig
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0679819312 |
This book is about a young pig called Ace living on a farm with Farmer Tubbs. Ace gets his name from the birth mark on his left hand side which looks like an ace of clubs.
Ace discovers from very young that he is able to understand the Queens English as well as communicating with the other animals living...
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| ISBN | 1402754744 |
With fantastic characters and enchanting language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands children have always loved to visit. These 26 selections from his classic works have never lost their fascination. Open the covers of this beautifully illustrated collection and take a magical journey...
| Author | Paulette Bourgeois |
| ISBN | 0590025929 |
This was a good book to help children understand how it feels to be 'the new kid' at school or on the block. The only reason I didn't place this as 4 star (because the storyline was worth it) Franklin the turtle is a bit on the 'whiney' side for my taste and that is a negative in my book so one star was taken off for...
In this story a tiny winged pony as she learns about life itself; learns the moral of the story " Laughing at yourself can be the most fun al all." As all baby ponies do as they grow up they start to wonder from their Mama's and be curious and learn about their environment. But the same butterflies that she loved...
| Author | Vivienne Mathews |
| ISBN | 1490965319 |
The struggle continues in this second installment of The Sons of Masguard. With more swashbuckling magic, greater foes, and even greater twists of Fate, this is one adventure you won't want to miss.
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A battle is lost.
A pirate...
Here’s Paddington once more, just returned from a visit to Darkest Peru and his Aunt Lucy’s birthday celebration at the Home for Retired Bears. Now that Paddington is home with the Browns, he’s free to cause his usual kind of trouble: dabbling in the stock market, trying a career as a barber, even...
If A Dragon Cries (The Legend of Hooper's Dragons Book 1)
Legend says that a great calamity follows the birth of a mystical golden dragon. It also says she will save everyone from the catastrophe. Hooper doesn’t believe in such nonsense, but he is about to find out how utterly wrong he is, and so is everyone else on Erdron.
Terribly burned by dragon fire,...
| Author | Lori Zoss |
| ISBN | 1936449528 |
Ready for a nap, young Fred the Basset Hound goes to his room after a morning of play and the unthinkable happens: his comfy, red bed has disappeared! After a search through his house with a less-than-helpful mouse, Fred sets out on a journey outside to find his bed. Along the way he meets a sedentary frog,...
| Author | Rebecca Rupp |
| ISBN | 0763628042 |
In the long-awaited follow-up to THE DRAGON OF LONELY ISLAND, three adventurous children find further intrigue on a tiny Maine island where a talkative three-headed dragon lives out its days.
With their parents off to London on a special trip, Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are thrilled...
