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Books like The reluctant dragon

12 books with a reading profile close to The reluctant dragon by Kenneth Grahame, Jim Weiss, Ernest H. Shepard, Michael Hague. Practical, outward-looking, 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 outward-looking · 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

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

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.
5

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.
6

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.
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 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.
9

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

by Verna Aardema

Also practical and outward-looking · accessible, classic literature

This West African folk tale begins with a mosquito telling a lie to an iguana about a stalk of yams.
10

The Complete Tales

by Beatrix Potter

Also practical and outward-looking · accessible, classic literature

This 1986 collection brings together all twenty-three of Beatrix Potter’s original Peter Rabbit stories alongside her shorter nursery rhymes and lesser-known tales.
11

The world of Robert Jordan's the wheel of time

by Robert Jordan, Teresa Patterson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy

This volume serves as a comprehensive encyclopedia of the setting, history, and mythology found in the first seven novels of the series.
12

Cozy Classics

by Jack Wang, Holman Wang

Also practical and outward-looking · 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.

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