22 best-selling childrens books like Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Hugh Lofting

Cover of Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Hugh Lofting

Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1

By: Hugh Lofting

4.17

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.—soaring into theaters…

If you liked the childrens plot in Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Hugh Lofting , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1) by Lisa McMann

1. The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1)

By: Lisa McMann

4.12

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"You were great,"

-Lisa McMann, The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1)

"Don’t die. (Clive in The Unwanteds)"

-Lisa McMann, The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1)

"It takes more than strength and intelligence to win a battle - it takes creativity and skill and common sense."

-Lisa McMann, The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1)

Cover of The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

2. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

Cover of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

3. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

4.07

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Dünya tarihinin en ünlü halk kahramanlarından biri olan Robin Hood, zorlu bir dönemde ortaya çıkmış… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"I had to pay a ransom of six hundred pounds in gold. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

4. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

Cover of The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2) by Jeanne DuPrau

5. The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2)

By: Jeanne DuPrau

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

"It is green here and very big. Light comes from the sky..." When Lina and Doon lead their people u… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

6. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

7. The Dragons of Blueland (My Father's Dragon, #3)

By: Ruth Stiles Gannett

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The third volume of the My Father's Dragontrilogy, this adventure may be enjoyed on its own. Here, … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) by L. Frank Baum, David McKee

8. The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)

By: L. Frank Baum , David McKee

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tip builds a pumpkinheaded man as a joke. But the joke's on Tip when a mean old witch brings Jack P… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9) by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart

9. Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9)

By: Tove Jansson , Kingsley Hart

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the ser… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1) by Brandon Dorman, Chris Colfer

10. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)

By: Brandon Dorman , Chris Colfer

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Timesbestselling series The Land of Stories about two … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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11. Beyond the Bright Sea

By: Lauren Wolk

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollowcomes a moving story of identity and belongi… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

12. A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)

By: Brandon Dorman , Chris Colfer

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories. Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adve… read more

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13. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

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14. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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Cover of The Princess and the Goblin  (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes

15. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

Cover of The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

16. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

17. Belly Up (FunJungle #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tai… read more

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18. Shadow Hunter (Star Wars: Darth Maul, #2)

By: Michael Reaves

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time h… read more

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19. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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20. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Tom Shippey , Alan Lee

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by N… read more

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21. The Eyes and the Impossible

By: Dave Eggers

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

Cover of Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1 by Celina Frenn

22. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1

By: Celina Frenn

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series is … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

23. Invisible

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) by Stuart Gibbs

24. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.33

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a new series about the world’s youngest and smart… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2) by S.D.   Smith

25. Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

By: S.D. Smith

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Perfect Paperback

The stage is set. It's war. Morbin Blackhawk, slaver and tyrant, threatens to destroy the rabbit re… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now."

-S.D. Smith, Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

"It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead"

-S.D. Smith, Ember Falls (The Green Ember, #2)

Cover of Mr. Wolf's Class (Mr. Wolf's Class, #1) by Aron Nels Steinke

26. Mr. Wolf's Class (Mr. Wolf's Class, #1)

By: Aron Nels Steinke

3.98

Format: 160 pages, None

Mr. Wolf has just started teaching at Hazelwood Elementary. He wants the first day of school to go … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen

27. Resistance

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"In the knowing, there was peace."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

Cover of The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5) by Anna     James

28. The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5)

By: Anna James

4.17

Format: None pages, None

A magical botanist A peculiar potion A secret garden A famous monster A return to the underlibr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Hugh Lofting

29. Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1

By: Hugh Lofting

4.17

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.—soaring into theaters… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile

15 Best adventure books like Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Hugh Lofting

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Lisa McMann

4.12

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E. Nesbit

4.02

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

Transform Your Habits

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John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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Kate DiCamillo , Chris Sheban

3.00

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