The Fox Busters
10 best books like The Fox Busters (Dick King-Smith): Moon Filly, The Cry of the Wolf, Firestorm, The Peppermint Pig, A Dog So Small, The Weathermonger, Be a Wolf!, The Fox Cub Bold, The Demon Headmaster, Gobbolino The Witch's Cat
| Author | Elyne Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0006746888 |
Wurring, almost a yearling, and the image of his great sire Winganna, is a golden chestnut with a mane and tail the color of living light of the sun. When Winganna brings a hauntingly beautiful mare and her filly foal to the herd, Wurring is drawn to the tiny filly despite himself. When the beautiful mare...
| Author | Melvin Burgess |
| ISBN | 0688136257 |
I think everyone has that one book they read as a teenager that got them really into reading. "Cry of the Wolf" was mine.
I decided to read it again as I hadn't read it in over 10 years and I still love it. It's a great novella which focuses on the last wolves in England. The wolves don't communicate...
| Author | Gene DeWeese |
| ISBN | 0679886192 |
Over 550,000 copies sold since April 1995! Now middle-grade readers can continue the journey into James Gurney's Dinotopia "RM" -- a remarkable world where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony. These all-new, stand-alone fantasy novels are written by top-notch fantasy and sci-fi authors...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0140309446 |
Could you possibly have guessed that this book with such a hyper-cute cover has the most inexplicably cruel ending I've ever seen in children's literature?
If 'The Peppermint Pig' (1975) by Nina Bawden was a book for adults, I would have rated it much higher. I am impressed by its nostalgic beauty...
| Author | Philippa Pearce |
| ISBN | 0140302069 |
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...
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0007140312 |
Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson’s cult classics
England in the future – but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes – a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle....
| Author | Brad Strickland |
| ISBN | 1570641951 |
Horrible monsters are taking a bite out of the kingdom! Who you gonna call!?When Joe Talbot's backpack is confiscated, Wishbone and Joe Talbot must confront a scary neighbor with a Big mean dog to get it back.
This reminds Wishbone of the old English tale Beowulf. Imagining himself as the great...
| Author | Colin Dann |
| ISBN | 0099205319 |
This book sticks out in my memory as the first book that I actively stopped reading because I didn't want it to end. It was clear what was about to happen and I couldn't bear to manifest that reality. I felt that a refusal to scan the remaining words could somehow freeze the characters in time and stop the inevitable...
| Author | Gillian Cross |
| ISBN | 0192753746 |
...and by Demon Cross really means Mean and Scary. There are no actual demonic entities, and no souls are eternally damned in the making of this book.
In fact, it isn't even very scary -- rather unrealistically so, given the premise. I mean, imagine you are little kid at a new school. Your new foster...
| Author | Ursula Moray Williams |
| ISBN | 0753412098 |
Why was I ever born a witch's kitten? Why - oh, why? With his bright blue eyes and sparky magic whiskers, no one could mistake Gobbolino for a kitchen cat, but that's just what he longs to be. So, while his sister Sootica learns how to ride a broomstick and turn mice into toads, Gobbolino sets off to find a nice...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0440864186 |
Michael Morpurgo writes a heart-warming book about a young boy Tom who witnesses a lion walking through an orchard. With great excitement he tells his family and friends, but no-one will believe him. He is shouted at by his father, gets in trouble with his teacher, ridiculed by the police, and is made...
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 0439963311 |
Mr Mack is out of a job and sets his mind to inventions - whilst unbeknownst to him Mrs Mack decides to walk around the world without telling anyone. But, Mr Mack's inventions get him into trouble when he's arrested for inadvertently holding up a bank. It's up to his children and their amazing dog, Rover,...
Pongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits
| Author | Kaye Umansky |
| ISBN | 0140342214 |
Pongwiffy has it all...a hovel of her own, a sometime-friend named Sharkadder, and an odor only a witch could love. Everything is almost perfect -- until a gaggle of Goblins move in next door. Heavens above, they're enough to wake the dead. It's time to move. But where? And where will she find a much-needed...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 0224098063 |
With his trusty adjunct, Detective Sergeant Ratzi, away for Christmas, there’s no holiday for Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he embarks on an investigation into the disappearance of his housekeeper’s niece, Bunty Spall.
The trail leads to a growing religious cult,...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689853173 |
From the shadows
of the pool,
Black as midnight,
thick as gruel...
Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is - how else can you explain the frightening things that have been taking place over the past several months?
Now Lynn's mom is planning to move her writing studio...
| Author | Alan Temperley |
| ISBN | 0439978378 |
Harry yang ini bukan Harry Potter tapi Harry Barton, meskipun mereka sama-sama bocah lelaki yatim piatu pada usia yang masih sangat muda. Mereka sama-sama orang Inggris. Mereka kemudian juga sama-sama dititipkan di rumah bibi mereka. Bedanya, Harry Barton bukanlah penyihir seperti halnya Harry...
