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Books like The Lost Princess of Oz

12 books with a reading profile close to The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

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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

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.
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

Cozy Classics

by Jack Wang, Holman Wang

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

Jack and Holman Wang condense monumental literary works like Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and Les Miserables into twelve-word narratives designed for infants.
9

The Mitten

by Jan Brett

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

In this retelling of a Ukrainian folktale, a young boy named Nicki asks his grandmother, Baba, to knit him a pair of mittens as white as the fallen snow.
10

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.
11

The son of sobek

by Rick Riordan

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy

In this short story, Demigod Percy Jackson and Magician Carter Kane collide while hunting a giant, supernatural crocodile in Long Island.
12

Make Way for Ducklings

by Robert McCloskey, David Crommett

Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature

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