Books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
If you liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The BFG
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.
Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating…
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James and the Giant Peach
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics, fantasy.
Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York…
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The Witches
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
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Matilda
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics, humor.
Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.
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The Horse and His Boy
Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.
Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.
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Peter Pan
Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, children.
Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, children.
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's…
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Prince Caspian
Because shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.
The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz.
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A Light in the Attic
Because shares tags: children, humor, classics.
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
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The Magician's Nephew
Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing…
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The Cat in the Hat
Because shares tags: children, classics, humor.
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
