Paddington Takes the Air

10 best books like Paddington Takes the Air (Michael Bond): The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Adventures of Johnny Chuck, The Magic Summer, Barbapapa, The Turret, Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride, Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz, The House at Pooh Corner and Now We Are Six, Imperial Traitor, Aesop's Fables + Cd

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Author	Beatrix Potter
ISBN	0723247803

My traditional start of the reading year with a Beatrix Potter tale.
The tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, obsessed with keeping her house clean while visitors disturb her tidy house 'and without any invitation' according Mrs. Tittlemouse, such as the rather intruding toad Mr. Jackson, in search of honey......

The Adventures of Johnny Chuck

Author	Thornton W. Burgess
ISBN	0486283534

Spring has arrived at the Green Meadow and Johnny Chuck is strangely discontent. On a whim, he offers Jimmy Skunk his house and then wanders off. Along the way, he gets into a fight with a strange woodchuck and, after a bruising battle, chases the intruder off. At that point, Johnny is feeling rather unconquerable...

The Magic Summer

Author	Noel Streatfeild
ISBN	0394816315

Four children are sent from London to live for the summer with an eccentric poetry quoting Aunt in a rural part of Ireland. They are left to fend for themselves and in the process find friendship and enjoyment in day to day tasks. The children find that there are things to gain from their self sufficient...

Barbapapa

Author	Annette Tison
ISBN	2878812301

This is charming and weird but not as weird as the rest of the series. I like when the rest of the Barba family is in play, doing bizarre semi-human things together with their giant shapechanging bodies.

So, the early picture of Barbapapa growing in the earth as he's watered like a flower and then...

The Turret

Author	Margery Sharp
ISBN	0261664794

(From the back cover)
The fabulous Miss Bianca has resigned, perhaps prematurely, as Madam Chairwoman of the Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society. In her honor an enchanting water picnic is held at the lily moat beneath a ruined turret in the park outside the city. While the band plays Handel's Water Music,...

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride

Author	George Selden
ISBN	0374411816

Chester Cricket--the famous cricket in Times Square--is homesick. When his friend Mario takes him to a sky show at the Planetarium, Chester realizes how much he misses seeing real stars at night.

Happily, he finds his way out of the subway into Times Square, where he meets a new friend, Lulu...

Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz

Author	L. Frank Baum
ISBN	1442485493

Explore the wonder of Oz in this collection of books seven through nine in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series.

The seventh, eighth, and ninth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection!

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkins Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky...

The House at Pooh Corner and Now We Are Six

Author	A.A. Milne
ISBN	1559352752

Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.

A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley...

Imperial Traitor

Author	Mark Robson
ISBN	1847380352

In the exciting conclusion to the trilogy, Emperor Surabar is assassinated, and Shalidar makes plans to put Lord Tremarle on the throne, in return for being appointed his heir. The remaining lords have other plans, however, and the city descends into anarchy. Femke and Reynik go into hiding with the...

Aesop's Fables + Cd

Author	Carol Watson
ISBN	0746081030

This book contains a collection of morals and lessons explained in simple language that is suitable for children to enjoy. Each fable has its own individual moral and lesson including such classics as the Tortoise and the Hare, The Thirsty Crow and the Lion and the Mouse. I used this book for Guided Reading...