18 books like The Giant Turnip

What to read after The Giant Turnip — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Heckedy Peg Audrey Wood · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food. Shares: Bilingual, 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: Folklore, Fairy Tales, 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: Folklore, 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: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde · 1887 · ★ 3.9 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Challenging This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. Shares: German language, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Orange Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1906 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A collection of fairy tales brought and translated from Rhodesia, Uganda, and Punjaub. Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A collection of thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of Lithuania, Africa, Germany, Greece, and France, and other parts of the world. Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Knight and the Dragon Tomie dePaola · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle. Shares: Bilingual, Children's fiction

The dragon's tears Manju Gregory · 2001 · 26p · ≈ 52m · Moderate Shares: Bilingual, Folklore, Children's fiction

The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged) Andrew Lang · 1907 · ★ 4.0 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan. Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Japanese Fairy Tales Yei Theodora Ozaki · 1905 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Japanese folktales are somewhat of a loaded term. In commonplace usage, it signifies a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague distinction of whether they fit the rigorous definition of folktale or not. The admixed imposters are literate written pieces, dating back to the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries) or even earlier times in the Middle Ages. These would not normally… Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

The Big Catch Anastasia Suen · 2009 Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise. Shares: Bilingual, 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

Plant Your Path Tracey West · 2013 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "It's all fun and games until the zombies arrive. ... you decide how to escape from the zombie horde or lose your brains"--Page 4 of cover. Shares: Plants, Children's fiction

The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1890 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia. Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Konek-gorbunok P. P. Ershov · 1834 · ★ 4.2 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Children's poem about a young farmer who with the help of his magical horse becomes Tsar of Russia. Shares: Bilingual, Folklore, Fairy Tales

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