Books like Five Children and It
Five siblings spending the summer in the Kent countryside dig up the Psammead, a cross, ancient sand-fairy who grants them one wish a day, each lasting until sunset.
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Mary Poppins
Blown in on the east wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, a stern and vain new nanny takes charge of the Banks children, and nothing in their days is ordinary again.
Matilda
Matilda Wormwood, a girl genius who teaches herself to read by three, is ignored by her crooked parents and terrorised by her monstrous headmistress, until she discovers she can move things with her eyes.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Bucket, who lives with his parents and four grandparents in a tiny house, finds one of five golden tickets to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory, along with four spectacularly spoiled children.
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.
Peter Pan
Three Bloomsbury children are flown out their nursery window by a boy who will not grow up, into an island where mothers are a rumour and the pirates and the lost boys keep taking turns being the villain.
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.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.
Just So Stories
Stories told to a child, Best Beloved, about how things came to be: how the whale got his throat, the camel his hump, the leopard his spots, and the cat that walked by himself.
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.
Puck of Pook's Hill
Acting A Midsummer Night's Dream in a Sussex meadow, two children summon Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, who brings them people from England's past to tell their stories.
Kiki's Delivery Service
By tradition a young witch leaves home at thirteen to live in a new town for a year, so Kiki flies off on her mother's broom with her black cat, Jiji, and lands in the seaside town of Koriko.