mimi10v3Older books that trust children with strangeness, independence, danger, and transformation. Animals, imaginary countries, and journeys offer moral worlds without reducing them to lessons.
The recorded ratings average 7.4/10, with 1 perfect ten. Recurring authors include L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Highest rated.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Mimi’s noteMy number one comfort read when I'm sick, the main character Polly has the virtues I've aspired to since first reading it as a young girl.
9/10Classic Literature : Children'sNational Velvet
About the bookSet in the English countryside, this novel follows fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, a spirited girl who wins a difficult, unruly horse in a raffle. Determined to train the animal for the…
8/10Classic Literature : Children'sAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
About the bookThis volume collects Lewis Carroll's two most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, which follow a curious girl as she tumbles down a rabbit hole…
8/10Classic Literature : Children'sKing of the Wind
About the bookThis Newbery Medal-winning novel is a fictionalized biography of the Godolphin Arabian, one of the three foundation stallions of the Thoroughbred breed. The story begins in 1920 at a ra…
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| A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1905 | — | Read | → |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1871 | 8 | Read | → |
| An Old-Fashioned Girl | Louisa May Alcott | 1870 | 10 | Read | → |
| Anne of Avonlea | L. M. Montgomery | 1909 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | 1908 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Ingleside | L. M. Montgomery | 1939 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of the Island | L. M. Montgomery | 1915 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | L. M. Montgomery | 1936 | — | Read | → |
| Anne's House of Dreams | L. M. Montgomery | 1917 | — | Read | → |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1877 | — | Read | → |
| Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | 1952 | — | Read | → |
| Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know | Various Authors | 1905 | 4 | Read | → |
| Jo's Boys | Louisa May Alcott | 1886 | — | Read | → |
| King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry | 1948 | 8 | Read | → |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1935 | — | Read | → |
| Little Men | Louisa May Alcott | 1885 | — | Read | → |
| Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry | 1824 | — | Read | → |
| National Velvet | Enid Bagnold | 1935 | 9 | Read | → |
| Rainbow Valley | L. M. Montgomery | 1919 | — | Read | → |
| Rilla of Ingleside | L. M. Montgomery | 1920 | — | Read | → |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1894 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Howard Pyle | 2006 | 5 | Read | → |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 1961 | — | Read | → |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1911 | — | Read | → |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | 8 | Read | → |