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Books like Kometen kommer (Kometjakten)

12 books with a reading profile close to Kometen kommer (Kometjakten) by Tove Jansson. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

The Green Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

The Green Fairy Book is the third installment in a series of global folklore anthologies edited by Andrew Lang.
2

Alice in Wonderland

by Jane Carruth

Also practical · accessible, classic literature

This retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic follows a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean realm where logic is discarded.
3

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

Also clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Dorothy Gale is a young girl living on a grey Kansas farm until a cyclone carries her house to the Land of Oz.
4

Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by Eric Shanower

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

In this graphic novel adaptation, Dorothy Gale is swept from her Kansas farm by a cyclone and deposited in the Land of Oz.
5

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Charlie Bucket lives in a cramped, freezing shack with his parents and four bedridden grandparents, surviving on thin cabbage soup.
6

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

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7

Prince Caspian

by Clive Staples Lewis

Also clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie return to Narnia centuries after their reign as kings and queens, finding the land under the occupation of the Telmarines.
8

The Wizard of Oz

by Lyman Frank Baum

Also clear-cut and escapist · accessible, classic literature

When a cyclone uproots a Kansas farmhouse, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, land in the vibrant Land of Oz.
9

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by Clive Staples Lewis

accessible, classic literature

Four siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—are evacuated from London during the Blitz to a country manor.
10

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection of sixty-four poems captures the solitary play and vivid internal life of a Victorian child.
11

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Seven-year-old Cedric Errol lives a modest life in New York City with his widowed mother, bonding with neighborhood tradesmen like Mr.
12

Peter Pan

by James Matthew Barrie

accessible, classic literature

In London, the Darling siblings—Wendy, John, and Michael—are whisked away from their nursery by Peter Pan, a boy who perpetually remains a child.

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