Books like 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.
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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 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.
Redwall
The peaceful mice of Redwall Abbey are threatened by Cluny the Scourge, a one-eyed rat, and his horde, and a clumsy young novice, Matthias, sets out to find the lost sword of the abbey's hero, Martin the Warrior.
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.
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.
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.
The Book of Three
Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.
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.
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.
The Cat Who Saved Books
Grieving the grandfather who raised him, reclusive high-schooler Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the family's secondhand bookshop when a talking tabby cat appears and asks for his help rescuing books from the people who imprison them.
Aru Shah and the End of Time
Aru Shah, twelve, who lives in a museum of Indian art in Atlanta and tells a lot of lies, lights a cursed lamp to prove a point and wakes the Sleeper, a demon who will bring the end of time.
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.