Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial.
2,055-word summary · 9 min read
children + classics
30 books tagged both “children” and “classics”.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
2,673-word summary · 12 min read
The Cat in the Hat
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
2,546-word summary · 11 min read
The Magician's Nephew
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 creation, and the apple…
2,528-word summary · 11 min read
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
2,413-word summary · 11 min read
Green Eggs and Ham
Sam-I-Am will not stop asking until his friend tries green eggs and ham.
1,977-word summary · 9 min read
The House at Pooh Corner
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
2,022-word summary · 9 min read
Winnie-the-Pooh
Edward Bear comes downstairs bump-bump-bump and into the Hundred Acre Wood for honey, hunneys, and heffalumps.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce friendship slowly turn…
2,182-word summary · 10 min read
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Poor Charlie Bucket finds a golden ticket to tour Wonka's factory with four spoiled kids.
3,574-word summary · 16 min read
Matilda
Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.
2,296-word summary · 10 min read
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer skips school, chases Becky Thatcher and sees Injun Joe kill in a graveyard on the Mississippi.
3,439-word summary · 15 min read