7 must-read childrens books like Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot, Errol Le Cain

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Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot , Errol Le Cain

4.15

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

Three poems describe the nighttime adventures of some rather special cats.

If you liked the childrens plot in Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot, Errol Le Cain , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot , Errol Le Cain

4.15

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

Three poems describe the nighttime adventures of some rather special cats. read more

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  • poetry
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • anthologies
  • cats
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2. Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

By: Naomi Novik

3.90

Format: 398 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will … read more

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"...It seems to me,"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody."

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you," he added, fiercely, to Lord …"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

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3. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more

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"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

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4. Destination Unknown

By: Agatha Christie

3.70

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missin… read more

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"His enthusiasm was of a contagious kind."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"He smiled, but not a very pleasant smile. Faintly catlike."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"Food and money and luxury and women aren’t everything, you know."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"Yet, even though he himself escaped unscathed, it was nevertheless defeat."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

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5. The Penelopiad

By: Margaret Atwood

3.72

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more

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"the gods often mumble"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

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6. The Night Before Christmas

By: Clement Clarke Moore , Jan Brett

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as "A Visit F… read more

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  • poetry
  • picture books
  • childrens
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be t…"

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

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7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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8. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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9. Snow & Rose

By: Emily Winfield Martin

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more

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  • childrens
"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

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10. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride migh… read more

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"I am sure I could not have liked any French captain half so much as you"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

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11. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

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12. The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.35

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charm… read more

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  • childrens
"when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"los recuerdos no sólo viven en tu interior minette. Residen en toda la gente y objetos con los que compartes tu vida"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"everything that happens is part of your wholeness. the sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -- it is all part of your tapestry .... remember that you are whole."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

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13. War's Unwomanly Face

By: None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more

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"War kills time, precious human time."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

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14. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

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15. The Little Engine That Could

By: Watty Piper , George Hauman , Doris Hauman

4.19

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before r… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can."

-Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

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16. Fangs

By: Sarah Andersen

4.24

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

A love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scri… read more

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"– In all my years, I really haven't slept with many people. I kinda have trust issues. – Why's that? – My „first"

-Sarah Andersen, Fangs

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17. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.41

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more

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  • childrens
"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

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18. Garlic and the Vampire

By: Bree Paulsen

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Vampire book and T.S. Eliot's Growltiger's Last Stand and Other Poems

  • childrens
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19. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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20. 재혼 황후 1 [Jaehon Hwangho 1] (Remarried Empress, Vol. 1)

By: Herelee

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

동대제국의 완벽한 황후였던 나비에. ​황제인 남편이 정부를 황후로 만들려는 것을 알고 이혼을 택한다. 그리고 결심한다. 이곳에서 황후가 될 수 없다면 다른 곳에서 황후가 되겠… read more

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21. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

By: Matt Cain

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more

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"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

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22. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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