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10 best books like The Hotel Cat (Esther Averill): Dorrie's Magic, Andrew Henry's Meadow, Wee Gillis, April's Kittens, The Legend of Sleeping Bear, The House of Arden, Thomasina, The Mousewife, Wolf Story, Betsy and Billy

Dorrie's Magic
AuthorPatricia Coombs
Oh, how cute is this book! I was just bemoaning how I couldn’t find many books I want to read, but thanks to my Goodreads friend Abigail, I’ve found some of the Dorrie books and was able to borrow this one from inter-library loan.

This is the first book in the series and it is wonderful. It was...
Andrew Henry's Meadow
AuthorDoris Burn
ISBN0970739923
A classic reissued for a new generation

Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew...
Wee Gillis
AuthorMunro Leaf
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand.

Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the Lowlands, while the other half finds him in the Highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family...
April's Kittens
AuthorClare Turlay Newberry
ISBN0060244003
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
The Legend of Sleeping Bear
AuthorKathy-jo Wargin
It is believed that the Ojibwe Indians of Michigan were the first to tell the story of Sleeping Bear and her cubs, a story which has since become known as 'The Legend of Sleeping Bear.' Artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in Holland, and author Kathy-jo Wargin bring...
The House of Arden
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1590172027
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...
Thomasina
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0930330935
From what I knew (or thought I knew) about this book, I’d expected an adventure story of cat who gets put down but manages to survive and find her way back to her girl—and a children’s story. But while it was that at one level, it was so much more, and certainly not a children’s story. It is the story...
The Mousewife
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0333344847
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
Wolf Story
AuthorWilliam McCleery
ISBN0208021914
This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story.It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes...
Betsy and Billy
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152051007
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Second grade holds lots...
The Storm
AuthorCynthia Rylant
Life with only the sea can be lonely. Just ask Pandora and Seabold. They've lived most of their lives with the sea -- Pandora in a lighthouse and Seabold on a boat -- and they're each quite used to being alone. Or they were.
But one day, the sea did something extraordinary: It brought Pandora and Seabold...
No Kiss For Mother
AuthorTomi Ungerer
ISBN1570982082
Children will sympathize with bad-kitty Piper Paw when he refuses to wear the clothes his mother sets out, squirms from her when she smothers him in kisses, and won't eat when she desperately tries to please him with his favorite foods.Through every disruptive means available to him -- slingshots,...
The Nine Lives of Aristotle
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0763622605
Dick King-Smith’s mischievous narrative and Bob Graham’s sweet, humorous watercolors capture the first eight lives of a kitten who’s ready to scamper his way into hearts everywhere.

Aristotle the kitten is so adventurous that it’s a good thing cats have nine lives. What’s even...
The Kingdom of Carbonel
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140304940
A long-awaited reissue of the much-loved sequel to Carbonel, King of the Cats. In this second story, published over forty years ago, Carbonel has been summoned to appear before the Great Cat but before he goes he has to find someone to look after his two royal kittens. And so he tracks down his young friends...
The Town Cats and Other Tales
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0141301228
The grand master of storytelling excels himself in this collection of eight tales about cats who outwit, outmaneuver, and often outclass the human with whom they come in contact.

From Pescato, the town cat who deals so shrewdly with a petty tyrant, to little Wittling, the unlikely apprentice,...
Harry Cat's Pet Puppy
AuthorGeorge Selden
ISBN0440456479
"Get that thing out of here!" Tucker shouted.Tucker Mouse was waiting impatiently in the drainpipe in the Times Square subway station where he and his friend, Harry Cat, made their home. And when Harry finally came home, he was dragging with him what looked like a dirty dish mop. It was a puppy."It's staying...
Angus and the Cat
AuthorMarjorie Flack
ISBN0374403821
A little black Scottish terrier called Angus is curious about cats but has never had the chance to satisfy his curiosity as they're so hard to get close to. One day Angus has his wish granted and finds one in his house. Oh dear, it looks like this one has come to stay. After a bit of swiping, chasing and hide...
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
AuthorThornton W. Burgess
ISBN0486413055
As this delightful story opens, something strange is going on! The waters of the Laughing Brook and Smiling Pool have become a mere trickle, causing alarm among the creatures of the Green Forest.
It seems Jerry Muskrat's cousin, Paddy the Beaver, has come south to make himself a new home. That means...
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
AuthorHugh Lofting
ISBN0440400961
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (Doctor Dolittle, #3), Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the third of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. Set on the West Coast of Africa, the book follows the episodic format of most other books in the series. In the beginning of the book, Doctor Dolittle...
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