18 books like Five Children and It
The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by the English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels and is preceded byFive Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904).
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The golden key
The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key.
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The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening.
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Spindle's End
The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a…
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The Crimson Fairy Book
Twenty four fairy tales from the folklore of Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Tunis, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily.
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The Pink Fairy Book
A collection of more than thirty fairy tales gathered from all over the world.
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Prince Cinders
A fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz
"Where's the butter, Unc Nunkie?" asked Ojo.
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Queen Zixi of Ix; or, Story of the Magic Cloak, The
The fairies assembled one moonlit night in a pretty clearing of the ancient forest of Burzee. The clearing was in the form of a circle, and all around stood giant oak and fir trees, while in the center the grass grew green and soft as velvet. If any mortal had ever penetrated so far into the great forest and could have looked upon the fairy circle by daylight, he might perhaps have seen a tiny…
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The Lilac Fairy Book
Thirty-three fairy tales including The one-handed girl and The raspberry worm.
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The Road to Oz
Dorothy and her friends follow the enchanted road to Oz and arrive in time for Ozma's birthday party.
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Truckers
Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: "Everything Under One Roof." Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense.
That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside,…
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The Darkangel
Aeriel is kidnapped by the Darkangel, swept up into his dozens of black wings and carried to his distant keep. There she is to serve his brides - thirteen pitiful creatures who were once beautiful, before the Darkangel drained away their souls. Aeriel would free them, but now that she, too, is one of the Darkangel's captives, she can do no other than obey - even while she knows she must destroy…
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Dream days
Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and private games they share. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, as Grahame looked back fondly at his own childhood, these sketches of growing up are…
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The dragons of Blueland
Elmer must come once again to the aid of his flying baby dragon when men discover its retreat and begin to hunt it.
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Sky Island
Button-Bright's adventures begin when he finds a magic umbrella that will carry him anywhere in the world.
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A history of glitter and blood
Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies. But when Beckan's clan is forced to venture into the gnome underworld to survive, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely…
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The Wishing Spell
Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel &…
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