18 books like The Tale of Despereaux
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
Shares: Ratones, Mice, Ficción juvenil
Il Fantasma del Metrò
When he hears reports of a ghost haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, Geronimo sets out to investigate the story.
Shares: Ratones, Mice, Animals
Una granita di mosche per il Conte
Bestselling mouse writer tale of Trap, who gets trapped in Transratania, and it's up to Gerónimo and Thea to rescue him ... but little do they know Transratania is the land of vampire mice!
Shares: Ratones, Mice, Ficción juvenil
Narodnye russkie skazki
A collection of Russian folk tales.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Fairy Tales
Neverwhere
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels.…
Shares: Rats, Fantasy
Thumbelina
The adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Fairy Tales, Fantasy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change... and a great sacrifice.
Journey into the land beyond the wardrobe! The Lion, the Witch and the…
Shares: Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Fantasy
The Legend of Luke
In this twelfth book in the Redwall epic, we go back in time to the days before Redwall, revealing the legend of the first of the magnificent Redwall warriors--Luke, father of Martin. It is that legend Martin hopes to discover when he embarks on a perilous journey to the northland shore, where his father abandoned him as a child. There, within the carcass of a great ship he uncovers what he's…
Shares: Mice, Action & Adventure, Animals, Fantasy
The light princess, and other fairy tales
"George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labors.
But…
Shares: Fairy Tales
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
A clever wandering minstrel rescues an imprisoned young lady when she charms the seven man-hating damsels guarding her by telling them stories, one by one.
Shares: Fairy Tales
Old-fashioned fairy tales
There was once upon a time a child who had Good Luck for his godfather. “I am not Fortune”, said Good Luck to the parents; “I have no gifts to bestow, but whenever he needs help I will be at hand”. “Nothing could be better”, said the old couple. They were delighted. But what pleases the father often fails to satisfy the son: moreover, every man thinks that he deserves just a little more than he…
Shares: Fairy Tales
Rapunzel
Ibook project for DTC 375 at Washington State University in Vancouver, Fall 2014. Illustrates the story of Rapunzel followed by a short essay describing the author’s experience with iBooks Author.
Shares: Fairy Tales
Runaway Ralph
Runaway Ralph is the second in a children's novel trilogy written by Beverly Cleary. First published in 1970, it is the last book by Cleary that Louis Darling illustrated before his death. The book features the titular character, Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse that can talk to humans, and goes on adventures on his miniature motorcycle.
The book was given the Nene Award by the Hawaii Library…
Shares: Mice, Action & Adventure, Fantasy
Labyrinth Lost
I was chosen by the Deos. Even gods make mistakes.
Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo she can’t trust, but who may be Alex’s only chance at saving her family.
Shares: Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy
Revolting rhymes
Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Fairy Tales
Tuck Everlasting
A surprising encounter between a young girl and a family which is cursed with everlasting life develops into a deep friendship. Lovely prose and a lovely thought provoking story.
Shares: Ficción juvenil, Fairy Tales, Fantasy
The Throne of Fire
Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians.
And now their most threatening enemy yet…
Shares: Ficción juvenil, Action & Adventure, Fantasy
Dragon's Breath
Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The neighboring kingdom has chosen this moment to attack, and if Emma can't get Grassina's mind back on protecting the…
Shares: Princesses, Fairy Tales, Fantasy