Books like Matilda
If you liked Matilda by Roald Dahl, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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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 BFG
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics, 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 also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics, 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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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics, humor.
Poor Charlie Bucket finds a golden ticket to tour Wonka's factory with four spoiled kids.
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Goodnight Moon
Because shares tags: classics, children, family.
A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.
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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.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Because shares tags: children, classics, 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, classics, humor.
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
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Wonder
Because shares tags: children, school, family.
Auggie Pullman starts fifth grade at Beecher Prep in Manhattan with a facial difference, and his year of friendship, hurt, and kindness…
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Because shares tags: classics, children, humor.
Tom Sawyer skips school, chases Becky Thatcher and sees Injun Joe kill in a graveyard on the Mississippi.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Because shares tags: children, humor, classics.
Sidewalk Ends retold: poems and drawings, Sarah Cynthia, unicorns, homework and giants.
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The Witches
Because also by Roald Dahl; shares tags: children, classics.
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
