12 must-read chapter books books like The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

Cover of The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.11

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute t…

If you liked the chapter books plot in The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Light at Tern Rock

By: Julia L. Sauer , Georges Schreiber

3.82

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Ronnie and his aunt are tending the Tern Rock lighthouse while the keeper takes a vacation. Ronnie … read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
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2. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

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3. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells li… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She…"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

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4. The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

By: Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Are there bears on Hemlock Mountain? One boy is about to find out in this classic tale. People hav… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. No Children, No Pets

By: Marion Holland

4.27

Format: 182 pages, Library Binding

A quite humorous story of the Sanders family, Mother, Don and Jane, four-year-old Betsy, and Victor… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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6. My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon, #1)

By: Ruth Stiles Gannett

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Elmer Elevator (narrator's father as a boy) runs away with an old alley cat to rescue a flying baby… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
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7. The Courage of Sarah Noble

By: Leonard Weisgard , Alice Dalgliesh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for t… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, Ruth Brown, Peter Barrett

8. James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot , Ruth Brown , Peter Barrett

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

James Herriot's Treasury for Children collects all of the beloved veterinarian's delightful tales f… read more

Similar categories in James Herriot's James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small book and Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses

  • classics
  • picture books
  • childrens
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9. A Grain of Rice

By: Helena Clare Pittman

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a humble farmer named Pong Lo asks for the hand of the Emperor's beautiful daughter, the Emper… read more

Similar categories in Helena Clare Pittman's A Grain of Rice book and Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1) by Garth Williams, George Selden

10. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

By: Garth Williams , George Selden

4.04

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tire… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happe…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still …"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their face…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

Cover of Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling

11. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

Similar categories in Holling Clancy Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea book and Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses

  • classics
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. 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
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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13. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

Cover of The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

14. The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.11

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses book and Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses

  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

15. Twenty and Ten

By: William Pène du Bois , Claire Huchet Bishop

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French kids in a boarding school agree to hid… read more

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16. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1) by Sydney Taylor

17. All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

18. Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories

By: Rosemary Wells

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brough… read more

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19. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more

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  • classics
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

Cover of The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess, None

20. The Burgess Animal Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

4.27

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • juvenile

21. The Whipping Boy

By: Peter Sís , Sid Fleischman

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses … read more

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16 must-read fiction books like The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

Transform Your Habits

The Light at Tern Rock

Julia L. Sauer , Georges Schreiber

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Family Under the Bridge

Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

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18 Best classics books like The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

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