Books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
If you liked The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Witches
Because 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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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.
C. S. Lewis's Narnia opener retold: four Pevensies, the White Witch's winter, Aslan's sacrifice, and the crowning at Cair Paravel.
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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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Howl's Moving Castle
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, classics.
Cursed old by the Witch of the Waste, hatmaker Sophie Hatter talks her way into wizard Howl's moving castle and bargains with fire demon…
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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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James and the Giant Peach
Because 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 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 Color of Magic
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, magic.
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
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The Amber Spyglass
Because shares tags: fantasy, adventure, classics.
Lyra and Will cross worlds with amber spyglass to free ghosts and kill Authority.
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A Darker Shade of Magic
Because shares tags: fantasy, magic, adventure.
Antari Kell Maresh, a blood magician who travels between Londons, meets thief Delilah Bard after she steals a stone of Black London magic…
