Books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid
If you liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Because shares tags: children, friendship, humor.
Edward Bear comes downstairs bump-bump-bump and into the Hundred Acre Wood for honey, hunneys, and heffalumps.
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The House at Pooh Corner
Because shares tags: children, friendship, humor.
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Because shares tags: children, humor, illustrated.
Sidewalk Ends retold: poems and drawings, Sarah Cynthia, unicorns, homework and giants.
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Everything I Know About Love
Because shares tags: humor, friendship.
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Witches
Because shares tags: children, humor.
Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all.
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The BFG
Because shares tags: children, humor.
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 shares tags: children, humor.
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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A Light in the Attic
Because shares tags: children, humor.
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
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The Cat in the Hat
Because shares tags: children, humor.
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
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The Bad Beginning
Because shares tags: children, humor.
After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Because shares tags: children, friendship.
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
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The Secret Garden
Because shares tags: children, friendship.
Sour Mary Lennox lands at Misselthwaite Moor from India, finds a locked garden with Dickon, and pulls sickly Colin to his feet.
