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10 best books like The Wombles (Elisabeth Beresford): Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice, The River at Green Knowe, Masha, Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Handa's Surprise: Read and Share, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, The Exiles at Home, Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy, Paddington: Here and Now

Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice
AuthorGilbert Adair
ISBN0330291580
I Did It for A Dare!

To attempt a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” series raises reader expectations on at least two levels.

Firstly, the originals are so well-known and well-loved, not to mention extraordinarily well-written, that readers will approach the...
The River at Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
Masha
AuthorMara Kay
ISBN0688416063
SET IN RUSSIA over 150 years ago, this book follows Masha through her 9 years at Smolni, an elite girls boarding school - years during which the shy, protected child grows to be a young woman about to face a challenging future. Mara Kay has evoked the sheltered world of Smolni with authenticity and has provided...
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
AuthorEleanor Farjeon
ISBN0763601330

Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the time she’s seven, the tireless girl can even outskip the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it many years later to save the children’s fabled skipping grounds from a greedy, factory-building lord? Charlotte Voake’s...
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
AuthorCatherine Storr
ISBN0140364633
This is an excellent book that tells the story of a very clever and witty little girl.

Polly is being tormented by a rather unpleasant wolf who constantly threatens to eat her! Polly, however, is far too clever for the silly wolf and devises a number of delicious ways to prevent him from eating...
Handa's Surprise: Read and Share
AuthorEileen Browne
ISBN0763608637
Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend Akeyo as a surprise But thanks to some hungry animals she meets along the way it's Handa who's in for a surprise! --cover

Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children...
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
AuthorNorman Hunter
ISBN0140367764
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.

The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
The Exiles at Home
AuthorHilary McKay
When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes. Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic...
Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy
AuthorRandolph Stow
ISBN0140304215
Even though MIDNITE was seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him...
Paddington: Here and Now
AuthorMichael Bond
ISBN0007269404
Half a century has passed & this little bear is still able to melt your heart & keep you & your little ones interested right up to the end...

Paddington Bear is celebrating his 50th birthday the only way this lovable, adventurous little bear would…with a delicious marmalade sandwich…and...
The Tree That Sat Down
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0006709931
One of my absolute favourite books from my childhood, which I think has had a great deal to do with my love of nature throughout my life.
I still yearn for the Shop Under the Willow Tree.

I still think of trying to gather some 'sleepo' when I can't get to sleep at night.

"Whenever a cat...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Whatever Next!
AuthorJill Murphy
ISBN0230015476
This book tells the story of a bear who finds household objects and turns them into a helmet, space boots and a rocket so he can go to the moon. On the way he encounters an owl who joins him on his journey. They land on the moon and have a picnic but eventually get bored, and thus decide to go back home. When he arrives...
Dear Mili
AuthorWilhelm Grimm
ISBN0060543124
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty!
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0307980650
In this hilarious sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire!—that even includes a guest appearance by J. K. Rowling a.k.a. "Oldwhatshername"—Madeleine wants nothing more than to save money for college, but her impractical, ex-hippie parents are broke. When the family unexpectedly...
The Bugalugs Bum Thief
AuthorTim Winton
ISBN0140347348
Author: Tim Winton
Illustrator: Stephen Michael King
First Published: 1991

Tim Winton:
Tim Winton is one of those Australian-Authors-Everyone-Should-Know. He's a name in Australian literature. And he writes Big Concept books. "Cloudstreet", published in 1991, is a chronicle...
The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster
AuthorDavid Conway
Little Miss Muffet is bored. She's tired of her same old nursery rhyme and she has had enough of that scary, little spider! So off she goes into the pages of the book to try other nursery rhymes. Falling down a hill with Jack and Jill was too painful, running up a clock is just embarrassing and running away...
Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525443398
I love Winnie the Pooh or, as Christopher Robin tells the narrator, "He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what ther means?"

And the narrator replies, " 'Ah, yes, now I do,' I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get."

This is the story...
Nurse Matilda Goes to Town
AuthorChristianna Brand
ISBN0747576777
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...
Oliver Finds His Way
AuthorPhyllis Root
ISBN0763613835
A small bear looks for—and finds—courage and a way home.


While Mama hangs the wash out
and Papa rakes the leaves,
Oliver chases a big yellow leaf . . .

Oliver is so intent on following a blowing autumn leaf that he doesn’t even notice that he’s lost his way. All alone...
The Queen's Nose
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0064404501
I really enjoyed re-reading this book as it brought me back to when I was 10 years old.

The book is about a young girl called Harmony, who her family don't quite seem to understand. She is a 10 year old girl, rather tom-boyish, and completely different to her elder sister, Melody.
If Harmony...
De tuinen van Dorr
AuthorPaul Biegel
Twee kinderen, een prinses en een tuinmansjongen, spelen in de tuin van het kasteel. Ze gaan van elkaar houden, maar dat mag niet. 'Jij bent de mijnewel,' verzucht de tuinmansjongen, 'maar ik ben de jouweniet.' Het prinsesje verzet zich hevig tegen de macht van de heks Sirdis die hun liefde dwarsboomt....
Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat
AuthorAnna Branford

Violet's sister Nicola is in a ferociously bad mood. She'a working on a project in Natural Science and, not only is nothing going right but Violet isn't helping with her suggestions. Especially the stupid ones about ladybirds.

Violet decides to help some small things and ladybirds, come...
Lycanthia: or The Children of Wolves
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0879976101
Even in today's world there are corners where past evils still cast their terror-haunted shadows. When the young man, Christian, came to his inheritance—a once grand mansion in just such a remote corner of France, he knew only that there was some sort of alternate claim to that ancient building and...
The Best of James Herriot: The Favorite Stories of One of the Most Beloved Writers of Our Time
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312192363

The Best of James Herriot is one of the most extraordinary volumes ever devoted to the work and world of a contemporary writer. Within its covers are unforgettable episodes from the remarkable series of memoirs that began with All Creatures Great and Small-"the ones my family and I have laughed...
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