18 books like The little white bird, or, Adventures in Kensington gardens

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Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey · 1948 · ★ 4.3 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Recommended by Mental Floss: 50 Essential Children's Books Shares: Parent and child, Children, Conduct of life

Peter Pan J. M. Barrie · 1911 · ★ 4.0 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. ---------- German-language description: Peter Pan, das ist der Junge, der nie erwachsen wird und auf einer Insel lebt, auf der alles möglich st. Wendy und ihre Brüder können noch nicht ahnen, was sie erwartet, als sie auf der Insel landen: Zusammen mit anderen Kindern geraten sie in… Shares: Peter Pan, Classic Literature, Fantasy

Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him… Shares: Parent and child, Fairies, Fantasy

Spinning-wheel stories Louisa May Alcott · 1884 · ★ 3.7 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of twelve heart warming stories for children. Premise: a winter storm forces a family, who have gathered for the winter holidays, to stay inside and listen to their grandmothers stories. Shares: Children, Conduct of life

The Master Key L. Frank Baum · 1901 · ★ 3.4 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A young boy accidentally summons the Demon of Electricity who gives him certain electrical gifts to show the world. Shares: Parent and child, Conduct of life, Fantasy

Darby O'Gill and the good people Herminie Templeton Kavanagh · 1903 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Six Irish tales about Darby O'Gill and his adventures with the little people, a leprechaun, and a banshee. Shares: Fairies, Social life and customs, Fantasy

Plain tales from the hills Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of… Shares: Soldiers, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne · 1760 · ★ 3.6 · 461p · ≈ 15h · Demanding Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters. Shares: Parent and child, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The house of the Wolfings William Morris · 1889 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The House of the Wolfings tells the tale of a band of German Goths living in a wood they call the Mark. Their lives are idyllic until the long shadow of the Roman Empire threatens the peace in their land. Thiodolf, the leader of the Wolfings and a descendant of the ancient gods, must rally the surrounding tribes to defend their home and way of life. Like much of Morris’s work, The House of the… Shares: Classic Literature, Fantasy

The Well at the World's End William Morris · 1892 · ★ 3.8 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom was but little. He had four sons whose names were Blaise, Hugh, Gregory and Ralph: of these Ralph was the youngest, whereas he was but of twenty winters and one; and Blaise was the oldest and had seen thirty winters. Shares: Children, Classic Literature, Fantasy

The way of all flesh Samuel Butler · 1900 · ★ 3.6 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Challenging I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly… Shares: Parent and child, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Une page d'amour Émile Zola · 1878 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Je me decide a joindre a ce volume l'arbre genealogique des Rougon-Macquart. Deux raisons me determinent. La premiere est que beaucoup de personnes m'ont demande cet arbre. Il doit, en effet, aider les lecteurs a se retrouver, parmi les membres assez nombreux de la famille dont je me suis fait l'historien. La seconde raison est plus compliquee. Je regrette de n'avoir pas publie l'arbre dans le… Shares: Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Jonas a judge; or, Law among the boys Jacob Abbott · 1840 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in the employment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just before daylight, into the great room. The great room was, as its name indicated, quite large, occupying a considerable portion of the lower floor of the farmer's house. There was a very spacious fireplace in one side, with a settle, which was a long seat, with a very… Shares: Children, Conduct of life

The uncommercial traveller Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Demanding A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. Shares: Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Sartor resartus Thomas Carlyle · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838." "This edition of Sartor Resartus is the first publication of the work that uses all extant versions to create an… Shares: Children, Conduct of life, Social life and customs

Lob Lie-by-the fire; or, The luck of Lingborough Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing · 1885 · 72p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares: Children, Conduct of life, Social life and customs

By Pike And Dyke A Tale Of The Rise Of The Dutch Republic G. A. Henty · 1880 · ★ 3.7 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A young man who is half Dutch and half English becomes involved in the Dutch revolt against Spain. He reports on the battles of Den Briel, Haarlem, Alkmaar, Leiden, and Antwerp. Prequel of By England's aid. Shares: Soldiers, Conduct of life

The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte · 1887 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The speaker, though apparently more at his ease at sea, was in dress and appearance fully as unnautical as Banks. As he leaned over the railing, his white, close-fitting trousers and small patent-leather boots gave him a jaunty, half-military air, which continued up to the second button of his black frock-coat, and then so utterly changed its character that it was doubtful if a greater contrast… Shares: Social life and customs, Classic Literature

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