18 books like Racketty-packetty house

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Raggedy Ann Stories Johnny Gruelle · 2010 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate RAGGEDY ANN STORIES Written & Illustrated by JOHNNY GRUELLE [Illustration] LITTLE SIMON New York London Toronto Sydney [Illustration] PREFACE AND DEDICATION As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann! The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child. There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose jointed, looking me… Shares: Dolls, Children's fiction

Queen Zixi of Ix; or, Story of the Magic Cloak, The L. Frank Baum · 1905 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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… Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Crimson Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1903 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Twenty four fairy tales from the folklore of Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Tunis, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily. Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Pink Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1897 · ★ 4.1 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A collection of more than thirty fairy tales gathered from all over the world. Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Barbie Horse Trouble Barbie Look Look Golden Books · 1921 · ★ 3.5 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Challenging Golden Books launches fun new Barbie series this year. With everything from fairy tales to horse club books -- there's something for everyone with Barbie Rebecca's the new camper at the Lucky Horseshoe Camp and she thinks she doesn't need Barbie, or Stacie's help. Will Rebecca change her tune after her horse becomes frightened and tries to throw her? Find out in Horse Trouble Shares: Dolls, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Violet Fairy Book (Large Print) Andrew Lang · 1901 · ★ 4.0 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, Romania, and Russia. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen · 2012 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen is a collection of classic stories that have inspired movies, animation, plays, ballets, and much more. Some of the most popular tales in this collection are The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s Clothes, The Philosopher’s Stone, and The Nightingale. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen · 1990 The collection consists of more than 20 stories by Hans Christian Andersen, including such favorites as The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Thumbelina, The Princess and the Pea. This edition features illustrations by Arthur Rackham, a famous artist from the Golden Age of book illustration, who created fascinating images of… Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Spindle's End Robin McKinley · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 395p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 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… Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1910 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Thirty-three fairy tales including The one-handed girl and The raspberry worm. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Truckers Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 4.1 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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,… Shares: Fairies, Children's fiction

The Spiderwick Chronicles Tony DiTerlizzi · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate German-language description Jared und seine Geschwister Simon und Mallory haben in dem alten Haus, in dem sie seit kurzem wohnen, eine geheimnisvolle Entdeckung gemacht: Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch der magischen Geschöpfe! Plötzlich eröffnet sich den Kindern eine Welt voller Magie und Zauberwesen – doch nicht alle sind ihnen freundlich gesonnnen. Urplötzlich heiklen Situationen und ungeahnten… Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Final Drop Robert Hewitt Wolfe · 2020 After being magically transported to another world with two other high school students, perennial outsider Billy Smith has become the unlikely king of a goblin civilization. With the help of his first day of high school crush, Lexi Aquino, now a powerful wizard, quarterback turned warrior Kurt Novac, and a cowardly but wily goblin named Hop, Billy has successfully repelled a human invasion of the… Shares: Fairies, Children's fiction

The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1892 · ★ 4.2 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Fairy tales gathered from the folklore of Russia, Germany, Italy, France, China, Scotland, and England. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1904 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Thirty-two fairy tales from the folklore of Africa, Australia, Brazil, India, New Caledonia, and Persia. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1910 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Sleeping Beauty told at length, with the hundred years of sleep and the family the prince has to leave, and other tales retold by a scholar-novelist for children. Quiller-Couch edited the Oxford Book of English Verse and wrote as a professor who never lost the storyteller's ear. The additions to Perrault are made with an obvious relish for the parts he thought too short. Shares: Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Flower Fables Louisa May Alcott · 1854 · ★ 3.5 Louisa May Alcott was twenty-one when she published this, her first book. A collection of fairy stories and poems she originally told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen, Flower Fables is a charming and delightful achievement from the hand that would eventually craft the timeless classic Little Women. Flower Fables is presented here in large print for easier reading by children and adults of… Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The golden key George MacDonald · 1906 · ★ 4.1 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key. Shares: Fairies, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

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