Books like The Velveteen Rabbit

If you liked The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Love You Forever

    Robert Munsch · 1986

    Because shares tags: children, love.

    A mother sings the same song through a lifetime until her son sings it back.

  2. Because of Winn-Dixie

    Kate DiCamillo · 2000

    Because shares tags: children, classic.

    Lonely Opal names a stray Winn-Dixie and finds ten friends, plus a way to ask her preacher father hard things.

  3. Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt · 1975

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy.

    Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.

  4. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  5. The Prophet

    Kahlil Gibran · 1923

    Because shares tags: classic, love.

    A prophet delayed twelve years answers his city on love, work, sorrow and freedom before his ship sails.

  6. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

  7. The Last Battle

    C.S. Lewis · 1956 · Chronicles of Narnia #7

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children.

    Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.

  8. Black Beauty

    Anna Sewell · 1877

    Because shares tags: classic, children.

    Black Beauty retold in his own voice, from Birtwick Park to London cabs, through hard owners and kind hands.

  9. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

  10. Peter Pan

    J.M. Barrie · 1911

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children.

    Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.

  11. The Witches

    Roald Dahl · 1983

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy.

    A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.

  12. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1900 · Oz #1

    Because shares tags: 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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