Books like Charlotte's Web
Wilbur, a runt pig saved from the axe by a farm girl named Fern, learns that he is to be slaughtered at Christmas, and his friend Charlotte, a clever grey spider, sets out to save him with words woven into her web.
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The Wind in the Willows
A mole, a water rat, a badger, and an incorrigible Toad live out the English seasons on the river bank, and the Wild Wood and Toad's motorcar keep trying, unsuccessfully, to break the arrangement.
Winnie-the-Pooh
A boy and his bear of very little brain wander the Hundred Acre Wood with a depressive donkey and an anxious piglet in a book that has become the grammar of English childhood.
Tuck Everlasting
Ten-year-old Winnie Foster runs off into the woods and discovers the Tuck family, who drank from a spring that made them immortal, and they must persuade her to keep their secret as a stranger in a yellow suit closes in.
James and the Giant Peach
James Henry Trotter, an orphan living miserably with two cruel aunts, is given a bag of magic crystals, and a peach on the old tree in the garden starts to grow, and grow.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Nils Holgersson, a lazy, cruel farm boy, is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried across Sweden on the back of a goose flying north with a flock of wild geese.
Bridge to Terabithia
Jess Aarons, a fifth-grader in rural Virginia who wants to be the fastest runner in his school, befriends Leslie Burke, the imaginative new girl next door, and together they create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods.
Watership Down
A small band of rabbits leaves a condemned warren in the English downs and walks across a country of foxes, farms, and fascist warrens to found a new home with a mythology of its own.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Satoru and Nana, the streetwise stray he took in, set off in a silver van across Japan to visit the old friends who might give Nana a home, for reasons Satoru keeps to himself.
The Tale of Despereaux
Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse with enormous ears who loves music, stories and a human princess named Pea, is banished to the castle dungeon for breaking the rules, and becomes the unlikely hero of a tale involving a vengeful rat and a servant girl.
The Wild Robot
When a crate washes up on a remote island, a robot named Roz is switched on by accident, and with no instructions she has to learn to survive among the wild animals, and becomes mother to an orphaned gosling.
The Jungle Book
Stories of the jungle, chief among them Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Seeonee hills, taught by the bear Baloo and the panther Bagheera, and hunted by the tiger Shere Khan.
Knulp
Three episodes in the life of Knulp, a charming vagabond who drifts from town to town in the German countryside, welcome everywhere and settled nowhere.