18 books like The girl who loved wild horses

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The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster · 1961 · ★ 4.2 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer. It was published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, drives through it in his toy car, transporting him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, once… Shares: Community pick

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1945 · ★ 4.3 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main characters perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Horses, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1890 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An Apple Books Classic edition.With Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell hoped to make people care about the cruel abuses that cab horses were suffering—bought and sold, whipped, and worked to exhaustion. Sewell tells the story from the perspective of Beauty, a horse who lived an idyllic life on a farm in the English countryside until he was sold and forced to pull cabs in London. In this way, she… Shares: Horses, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

One fine day Nonny Hogrogian · 1971 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again Shares: Caldecott Medal, Spanish language materials, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1905 · ★ 4.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main characters perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). "Black Beauty". Merriam Websters Encyclopedia of Literature. The novel became an immediate best-seller,… Shares: Horses, 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: Horses, Girls, 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

The reluctant dragon Kenneth Grahame · 1938 · ★ 4.0 · 28p · ≈ 56m · Challenging The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and especially St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern? Shares: Indians of North America, 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

The Faithful Friend Robert D. San Souci · 1995 · ★ 4.1 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique. Shares: Caldecott Medal, Children's fiction

A Whisper of Horses [Paperback] Zillah Bethell Zillah Bethell · 2017 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In a post-apocalyptic Great Britain, after her mother's death Serendipity, about twelve, leaves Lahn Dan and teams up with an orphan, Tab, hoping to find horses surviving somewhere. Shares: Horses, 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

Dear Mili Maurice Sendak · 1957 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years. Shares: Girls, Spanish language materials, 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

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

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