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Paddington: Here and Now

10 best books like Paddington: Here and Now (Michael Bond): You And Me, Little Bear, Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic, Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, The Fire King, The Wombles, When the Sky Is Like Lace, Queen of the Dead, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Angus and the Ducks

You And Me, Little Bear
AuthorMartin Waddell
ISBN0744544599
A beautifully told story about the close relationship between a father bear and his son.
You could read this book with two views in mind; friendship, sharing and playing or the strong bond children have with a loved one. The story can also be read with the theme of father and son in mind.
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Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic
AuthorEmily Jenkins
ISBN0375839356
Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys Trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toys Come Home.

Lumphy, Stingray, and Plastic are back! And this time the lovable trio finds that their little girl has left for winter vacation and taken a box of dominoes, a stegosaurus...
Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm
AuthorLynne Reid Banks
ISBN0006751970
Read to my daughters - ages 4 & 6. They both quite liked it. Nearly every chapter ended with a cliffhanger of sorts and it drove my daughters crazy when I put down the book without reading "one more chapter!"

As a child, I spent a couple of years living in a tropical country with poisonous centipedes....
Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140311874
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy

“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
The Fire King
AuthorPaul Crilley
ISBN1606840320
With humans threatened by otherworldly creatures, orphans Emily and William Snow, and their friends the pickpocket Spring-Heeled Jack and the wisecracking Corrigan find themselves two hundred years in the past, trapped in the London of 1666. Desperately in need of help, they go in search of Sir Christopher...
The Wombles
AuthorElisabeth Beresford
ISBN0140305726
Ahhhhhh. What a satisfying bedtime read.

I never heard of the Wombles until I ran across them 15 yrs ago or so on Nick at Nite. The charming short films were cute without being twee, funny without being obvious, and I loved them immediately. Only recently did I find out there were books!! And the...
When the Sky Is Like Lace
AuthorElinor Lander Horwitz
ISBN0670059099
What happens when it's bimulous and the sky is like lace? Strange and splendid things! Otters sing, trees dance, and the grass is like gooseberry jam. There's a special party that anyone can attend. Anyone, that is, who knows the rules and isn't afraid of plum-purple shadows, can cook spaghetti and would...
Queen of the Dead
AuthorTy Drago
ISBN1402275579
Twelve -year old Will Ritter and his rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters may have triumphed over the Zombies last time, but that's the thing about the dead: they keep coming back.

A new Corpse leader has crossed the rift and taken command of the invasion: The Queen of the Dead is even more...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
AuthorFrank Cottrell Boyce
ISBN0763659576
Buckle your seatbelt for the first-ever follow up to Ian Fleming’s only children’s story.

When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car . . . and it wants its...
Angus and the Ducks
AuthorMarjorie Flack
ISBN0374403856
When Angus, a very curious young terrier, sees that the door is open one day, he decides to go exploring. Little does he know what neighbors await him!

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reintroduce Angus and the Ducks, along with its companion books, Angus and the Cat and Angus Lost. These...
Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
AuthorBeatrix Potter
ISBN0517449013
Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends is a charming collection of thirteen stories by Beatrix Potter, illustrated with her full-color drawings. Almost everyone is familiar with the story of Peter Rabbit, the high-spirited bunny who disobeys his mother and narrowly escapes disaster in Mr. McGregor's...
Poppleton Everyday
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0590848534
In this easy-to-read chapter book, Poppleton the pig charms young readers with his quirky adventures, whimsical ideas, and engaging community of friends! In three funny stories, Poppleton tries stargazing, goes in search of a new bed, and finds sailing anything but relaxing! These hilarious stories...
Chester Cricket's New Home
AuthorGeorge Selden
ISBN0440412463
Ugh, this book. It's hard to believe it was written in the 1980s, when its attitudes seem to be straight from the 1940s.

The main characters in this book are Chester Cricket, Simon Turtle, and Walter Water Snake. Others are John Robin, Donald Dragonfly, Bill Squirrel, Sam Grackle, Henry and...
Martha Blah Blah
AuthorSusan Meddaugh
ISBN0395901189
Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh was a story about a dog who had the ability to speak after eating a can of Granny's Alphabet Soup. Later in the story, Granny Flo decided it would be cheaper to made cans of soup with only half of the alphabet. With only 13 letters in the new cans, Martha was no longer able to...
Fred and Ted's Road Trip (Beginner Books
AuthorPeter Eastman
ISBN0375867643
Fred and Ted?beloved canine stars of P.D. Eastman's Big Dog . . . Little Dog and son Peter Eastman's Fred and Ted Go Camping and Fred and Ted Like to Fly ?are on the move once again in Fred and Ted's Road Trip, the 100th Beginner Book published since Dr. Seuss launched the series in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat....
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