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10 best books like The Dolls' House (Rumer Godden): The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Eric Carle's Animals Animals, Wombat Stew, The Borrowers Aloft, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature, Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit, Little Witch, A Candle in Her Room

The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
AuthorMay Gibbs
ISBN0207170614


Not, you never said that Snugglepot and Cuddlepie was a sex-and-violence-infused philosophically-motivated Scandinavian-themed retelling of Genesis. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?
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[Later the same day]



Well, I'm definitely building...
Eric Carle's Animals Animals
AuthorEric Carle
ISBN0698118553
From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses,...
Wombat Stew
AuthorMarcia K. Vaughan
ISBN0382092112
When I was in the book store very recently, I saw this book on the sale table and nostalgia just brimmed out of me. I showed it to my fiance and surprisingly he had never heard of the book. It's fantastic!! I NEED to go back and get it! It's just brilliant!

The story, moral, catchy rhyme and beautiful...
The Borrowers Aloft
AuthorMary Norton
ISBN1858815940
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the family of tiny Borrowers -- think they have at last found an ideal home. They've moved into a house in a miniature village built as a hobby by a retired railroad man. The village is the perfect size for the Borrowers, and after the hardships they've faced, the Clocks...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
AuthorLucy Mangan
ISBN0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
AuthorJoyce Lankester Brisley
The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world....
The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature
AuthorStan Berenstain
ISBN0679886524
Here are three books bound together to make one awesome Bear Country collection! The Berenstain Bears' Almanac, The Berenstain Bears' Nature Guide, and The Berenstain Bears' Science Fair are filled with fascinating facts that cubs and kids want o know about the world they live in. Chock-full of information...
Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
AuthorDavid Borgenicht
ISBN0762417129
I love Brer Rabbit. Song of the South was re-released in theaters when I was 6 years old and I fell in love with him. We had a book of Joel Chandler Harris’ stories at home and my mother read for me with what I remember as great enthusiasm (although she was probably exhausted). I also had a book and record of...
Little Witch
AuthorAnna Elizabeth Bennett
ISBN0440842786
Minikin Snickasnee - called Minx for short - was nine years old and wished with all her heart that she was not a witch's child. ...

It may sound like fun to be the daughter of Madam Snickasnee and be forbidden to go to school, to wash behind your ears, or go to bed at night. You might even like to see certain...
A Candle in Her Room
AuthorRuth M. Arthur
ISBN0689703155
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
The Wouldbegoods
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN0140367519
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
AuthorEnid Blyton
ISBN0749732105
"A land at the top of a tree!" said Connie. "I don't believe a word of it."

Jo, Bessie and Fanny are fed up when Connie comes to stay - she's so stuck-up and bossy. But they don't let her stop them having fun with their tree-friends, Silky, Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man. Together they climb through...
One Snowy Night
AuthorNick Butterworth
ISBN0007169736
Percy the park keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter’s night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food, and he must think of a way to help them find a warm place to sleep for the night. Percy’s hut is nice and warm, but he discovers that if you...
People
AuthorPeter Spier
We still own the battered beaten-up copy of this homage to humanity that our two daughters returned to so often that it needed patching up with a judicious amount of sticky tape. A wholehearted celebration of diversity, it devotes pages to appearance, homes, food, clothes, pastimes, jobs, pets, feasts...
The Worst Witch Strikes Again
AuthorJill Murphy
ISBN0140313486
Mildred’s life is about to get even more complicated!

See, she’s the Worst Witch. Nothing falls into place around her. This semester, there’s a new witch in town and she falls into Mildred’s responsibility.

I had more fun reading this book than the last (and first). Enid is...
The Borrowers Aloft: With the Short Tale Poor Stainless
AuthorMary Norton
ISBN0152047344
Borrowers Pod and Homily enjoy miniature model village of Little Fordham built by quiet one-leg Abel Potts. Daughter Arriety 17 secretly confides in elderly chatterbox fairy believer Miss Menzies. Competitors big Mabel and small thin Sidney Platter kidnap Clocks for tourist attraction opening...
Private Keep Out!
AuthorGwen Grant
ISBN1903015022
Hmm! Thought I'd enjoy this book a lot more than I did! I possibly would have liked it if I read it when I was seven or eight, but meeting Lizzie for the first time as an adult I just found her irritating and unbelievably bratty! So much slapping from her siblings, and especially from various adults - some not...
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
AuthorJenni Murray
ISBN1786074109
They led while others followed. They stood up and spoke out when no one else would. They broke the mould in art, music and literature. Each of them fought, in their own way, for change. Encompassing artists, politicians, activists, reporters and heads of state from past and present, A History of the World...
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