11 Top classics books like The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson

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The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex…

"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

If you liked the classics plot in The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson , 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
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"...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 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

2. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, William   Nicholson

3. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • animals
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

Cover of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By: Eric Carle

4.33

Format: 26 pages, Board book

THE all-time classic story, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 sec… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
"On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcak…"

-Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Cover of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1) by Beatrix Potter

5. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

By: Beatrix Potter

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"Now, my dears," said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but… read more

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  • short stories
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"I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success."

-Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

"Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime."

-Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)

Cover of Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw

6. Love You Forever

By: Robert Munsch , Sheila McGraw

4.29

Format: None pages,

An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent fe… read more

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  • classics
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

7. Green Eggs and Ham

By: Dr. Seuss

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

"Do you like green eggs and ham?" asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or w… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) by Ernest H. Shepard, A.A. Milne

8. Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne

4.38

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey,… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • animals
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  • fantasy
"I might have known,"

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"Think, think, think."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"It's so much more friendly with two."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

9. Corduroy

By: Don Freeman

4.72

Format: 64 pages,

Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Cordur… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy

10. Goodnight Moon

By: Margaret Wise Brown , Clement Hurd

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And… read more

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11. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

By: Dr. Seuss

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite kn… read more

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12. The Cat in the Hat

By: Dr. Seuss

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

Poor Sally and her brother. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do . .… read more

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13. The Lorax

By: Dr. Seuss

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not." Lo… read more

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14. Where the Wild Things Are

By: Maurice Sendak

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls… read more

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15. Oh, The Places You'll Go!

By: Dr. Seuss

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

In this joyous ode to life, Dr. Seuss addresses graduates of all ages, from nursery school to medic… read more

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16. The Runaway Bunny

By: Margaret Wise Brown , Clement Hurd

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hi… read more

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17. Madeline

By: Ludwig Bemelmans

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, th… read more

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18. A Light in the Attic

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more

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19. Charlotte’s Web

By: E.B. White , Garth Williams , Rosemary Wells

4.20

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
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  • juvenile
"Don't write about Man; write about a man."

-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

"We take to the breeze, we go as we please."

-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

"With the right words you can change the world."

-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

20. The Giving Tree

By: Shel Silverstein

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception… read more

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Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow

21. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more

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  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

11 Best fiction books like The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

4.33

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22 best-selling fiction books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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