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Books like The Enchanted Island of Yew

12 books with a reading profile close to The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum. 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

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.
3

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.
4

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.
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

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.
8

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.
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

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

by Roald Dahl

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy

Picking up directly after the events of the chocolate factory tour, Charlie Bucket and his family board a translucent lifting device that accidentally enters Earth's orbit.
12

A Book of Narnians

by C. S. Lewis

Also clear-cut · accessible, fantasy

This volume serves as a comprehensive visual encyclopedia of the diverse inhabitants of the Narnian universe.

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