11 must-read classics books like Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Thornton W. Burgess

Cover of Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Thornton W. Burgess

Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

By: Thornton W. Burgess

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Something is definitely wrong with Peter Rabbit . . . he has no appetite! Deciding he is terribly l…

If you liked the classics plot in Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Thornton W. Burgess , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Gillian Avery

1. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • literature
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Cover of A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

2. A Lantern in Her Hand

By: Bess Streeter Aldrich

4.18

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

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3. The Last Trail

By: Zane Grey

4.57

Format: None pages,

When a woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane ta… read more

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

4. 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
Cover of The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

5. The Iliad/The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

6. Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.63

Format: 304 pages,

1853. Hawthorne wrote these stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incompara… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo, Yoko Tanaka

7. The Magician's Elephant

By: Kate DiCamillo , Yoko Tanaka

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpect… read more

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  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Moffats (The Moffats, #1) by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

8. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.01

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook

9. Pax

By: Sara Pennypacker , Jon Klassen

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Pax was only a kit when his family was killed, and "his boy" Peter rescued him from abandonment and… read more

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10. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon… read more

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Cover of Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater, Robert Lawson

11. Mr. Popper's Penguins

By: Richard Atwater , Florence Atwater , Robert Lawson

3.97

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, then get a penguin from the zoo who mat… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction

12. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School #1)

By: Louis Sachar , Adam McCauley

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirt… read more

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13. The Man in Lower Ten

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Lawrence Blakely, attorney-at-law, sets off by train to deliver valuable documents in a criminal ca… read more

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14. The Window at the White Cat

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jack Knox adored the beautiful Margery Fleming, but she adored the less-than-reputable Harry Wardro… read more

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15. Paddington Goes to Town (Paddington, #8)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

If a boulder rolls down the aisle of a bus, sending the entire carload careening; if a visitor to t… read more

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16. Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case

By: Ulf Nilsson , Gitte Spee

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The third and final book in the much-loved Detective Gordon series by one of Sweden's top children'… read more

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17. To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

3.84

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

18. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

By: William Hope Hodgson

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Willia… read more

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19. Paddington Takes the Test (Paddington, #11)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Again we find Paddington in excellent form--and, as usual, up to his ears in trouble. By accident h… read more

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Cover of Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

20. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature… read more

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  • childrens classics
  • classics
  • american
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndr…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

21. When a Man Marries

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

"It began with Jimmy Wilson and a conspiracy was helped on by a foot-square piece of yellow paper a… read more

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22. The Rainbow Trail ( Riders of the Purple Sage#2)

By: Zane Grey

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"Yes. He wanted to stay, and I had work there that'll keep him awhile. Shefford, we got news of Sha… read more

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23. And Then It's Spring

By: Julie Fogliano , Erin E. Stead

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they've had enough of all that … read more

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24. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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25. Paddington On Top (Paddington, #10)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this revised edition of Paddington on Top, our favorite bear finds himself caught up in seven fr… read more

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26. Frog Went a-Courtin'

By: Feodor Rojankovsky , John Langstaff

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

"A favorite old nursery ballad now appears in resplendent new dress. . . . Illustrator Feodor Rojan… read more

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27. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman

28. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

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  • animals
  • audiobook
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Cover of The Clover Curse (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse, #7) by Poppy Green

29. The Clover Curse (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse, #7)

By: Poppy Green

4.26

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Sophie finds a four-leaf clover that isn’t exactly lucky in the seventh book of The Adventures of S… read more

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  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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30. Broughtupsy

By: Christina Cooke

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Thornton W. Burgess

31. Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

By: Thornton W. Burgess

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Something is definitely wrong with Peter Rabbit . . . he has no appetite! Deciding he is terribly l… read more

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  • animal fiction
  • classics
  • childrens
  • american
  • literature
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • audiobook

14 must-read fiction books like Mrs. Peter Rabbit (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Thornton W. Burgess

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

A Lantern in Her Hand

Bess Streeter Aldrich

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Last Trail

Zane Grey

4.57

Transform Your Habits

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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12 Top fiction books like The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Iliad/The Odyssey

Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

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