Books like Where the Sidewalk Ends
If you liked Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Light in the Attic
Because also by Shel Silverstein; shares tags: children, poetry, humor.
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
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The BFG
Because 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 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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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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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Because shares tags: children, humor, illustrated.
Greg Heffley records middle school survival in his journal, dodging the Cheese Touch and Rowley's popularity.
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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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Matilda
Because 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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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Because 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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The Giving Tree
Because also by Shel Silverstein; shares tags: children, classics.
A boy and a tree grow older together as he takes her apples, branches, and trunk until only a stump remains.
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The Lorax
Because shares tags: children, classics.
The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.
