The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit
10 best books like The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit (Beatrix Potter): The Color Kittens, Autumn Story, Flutterby Fly, The Little Leftover Witch, Mr. Topsy-Turvy, My Goodnight Book, Babar and Zephir, The Fox and the Hound, Angus and the Ducks, Jingle Bells
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0307021416 |
My grandmother used to read me this book between puffs of her cigarette. How I loved this story...it's the tale of two kittens, Hush and Brush. They have buckets and buckets and buckets of paint, but none that are the color green. Refusing to have their spirits crushed by the evil paint manufacturing company,...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830548 |
Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the cornfield and into the Chestnut Woods,...
| Author | Stephen Cosgrove |
| ISBN | 0843176628 |
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| Author | Florence Laughlin |
| ISBN | 0027545601 |
Sweet little old-fashioned chapter book about a family who takes in a little lost witch. Yes, at times it slips toward the saccharine, and the story is definitely dated. But for the most part, this is just a nice story about the power of love.
Some readers seem to take issue with how Felina is changed,...
| Author | Roger Hargreaves |
| ISBN | 0843176547 |
A Stranger Comes to Town
2 September 2016 - English Channel
Well, I'm currently sitting on the Eurostar about 75 meters under the English channel, and since I am waiting for my computer to copy some files over I thought it might be a good time to read another Mr Men book. Actually, I thought...
| Author | Eloise Wilkin |
| ISBN | 0307122581 |
When I was a wee girl, this was one of my FAVORITE books, and I requested it often (probably every day). For the first time in over 30 years, I found and read a copy. Even as an adult I can understand the appeal of this book, and I imagine it was no hardship for my parents to read it over and over and over and, well,...
| Author | Jean de Brunhoff |
| ISBN | 0394805798 |
Bright blue shiny boards with a colorful picture of Zephir in a boat are in good condition. Corners show some slight wear (see image). Endpapers have grey elephants on bright yellow. Interior pages (40) are fine with no extraneous marks or inscriptions. Not ex-libray and no remainder marks. Printed...
| Author | Walt Disney Company |
| ISBN | 1570820384 |
This was a heartwarming book about - you guessed it! A fox and a hound. They were great friends until the hound (Copper) had to go on a trip! The fox (Tod) was very lonely after he left. When Copper came back with his brother, Chief and his owner, Amos, the two were fully grown animals. However Copper had a job,...
| Author | Marjorie Flack |
| ISBN | 0374403856 |
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...
| Author | Kathleen N. Daly |
| ISBN | 0307020738 |
This book turned out to be unintentionally hilarious... but only because it was horrifying.
The story starts out with a bear family out in their sleigh. Things quickly devolve from there, though, starting with Papa Bear cracking his whip at the poor horse, Hubert... who it's stated loves pulling...
Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0385373279 |
Published for the 150th anniversary of her birth, this story stars a young Beatrix Potter, creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and many other classic children’s books.
Hopkinson takes readers back to Victorian England and the home of budding young artist and animal lover Beatrix Potter....
Nurse Matilda Goes to Town
| Author | Christianna Brand |
| ISBN | 0747576777 |
Mr and Mrs Brown have a huge family of incredibly naughty children. They had once been fortunate enough to acquire the services of Nurse Matilda, who had transformed the children into models of good behaviour. But now the children have slipped back into their wicked ways: Tora has put glue in the sandwiches...
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
Thornton W. Burgess's outdoor observations in nature were used as plots for his stories. In his first book, Old Mother West Wind, published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories. The characters in the Old Mother West Wind series include Peter Rabbit (briefly...
Ella longs for a little independence in this second adventure for the charming elephant.
Ella the elephant is too little to slice the cake in her mother's bakery, and the oven is absolutely off-limits. It feels like she can't do ANYTHING important - until Ella's mother needs help with an emergency...
The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six
| Author | A.A. Milne |
| ISBN | 0525444483 |
The world of Christopher Robin is a world of childhood-gay, rollicking, imaginative-a world of reality and enchanting make-believe. It is a world in which Christopher Robin and Alice watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and where James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree...
