18 books like The Pooh Perplex

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The poetics of childhood Roni Natov · 2002 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature… Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, History and criticism

Written for children: an outline of English children's literature John Rowe Townsend · 1965 · ★ 3.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, History and criticism

Regendering the school story Beverly Lyon Clark · 1996 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and… Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, Literary Criticism

When we were very young A. A. Milne · 1924 · ★ 4.2 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century. Shares: Winnie-the-Pooh, Children

Coraline Neil Gaiman · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Shares: Children's literature, Books and Reading

Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK! Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The… Shares: Children's literature, Wit and humor

Dream days Kenneth Grahame · 1898 · 129p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll · 1889 · ★ 4.0 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland. Shares: Children's literature, Children

Jim Ugly Sid Fleischman · 1992 · ★ 3.5 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father. Suggested level: primary, intermediate. From Google Books Shares: Children's literature, Wit and humor

Aunt Jo's scrap-bag Louisa May Alcott · 1871 Preface As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hand all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathers together some stories, old and new, to amuse the large family that has to rapidly and beautifully grown up about me. I hope that when they pomenade in nightcaps and gowns to rifle the plump… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In the world outside, medicine exists that can cure the dread disease, and… Shares: Children's literature, Children

Hatter M Volume Two - Mad with Wonder Frank Beddor · 2009 · ★ 3.0 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In volume 2 of the Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars series it’s a mad, mad, mad world. Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan’s maniacal quest to find Alyss continues. In Volume 2, MAD WITH WONDER, Hatter follows the Glow from London to the battlefields of America’s Civil War in search of the Princess who must some day be Queen. The America that Hatter encounters is a sprawling, wounded, boiling… Shares: Characters, History

Dog Man Dav Pilkey · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Supa Buddies have been working hard to help Dog Man overcome his bad habits. But when his obsessions turn to fears, Dog Man finds himself the target of an all-new supervillain! Meanwhile, Petey the Cat has been released from jail and starts a new life with Li'l Petey. But when Petey's own father arrives, Petey must face his past to understand the difference between being good and doing good. Shares: Children's literature, Humor

Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1853 · ★ 3.8 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episodes that illustrate conceptions held by the original authors. Titles include: "The Minotaur," "The Pygmies," "The Dragon's Teeth," "Circe's Palace," "The Pomegranate Seeds" and "The Golden Fleece." Shares: Children's literature, Children

Dog Man Dav Pilkey · 2002 · ★ 4.4 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The mayor has had enough of Dog Man's shenanigans in the ninth book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey. Dog Man's really done it this time! He hands over his badge and clears out his desk, but while he may be out of a job, he's not yet out of hope. With his friends at his side, can Dog Man dig himself out of this hole and paw his way back onto the force? Dav Pilkey's wildly… Shares: Children's literature, Humor

Children's Literature Review Gerard J. Senick · 1978 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Children's literature, Literary Criticism

The flunking of Joshua T. Bates Susan Shreve · 1984 · ★ 3.6 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Driving home from the beach on Labor Day, Joshua receives some shocking news from his mother: he must repeat third grade. Shares: Books and Reading, Children

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An instant #1 USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestseller! In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ​ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that’s… Shares: Children's literature, Humor

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