Books similar like Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult

We Are in a Book! (Elephant & Piggie, #13)

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.

In We Are in a Book! Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen …

Buy this book on Amazon

I Want My Hat Back

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, on…

Buy this book on Amazon

The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)

In 1926, "Winnie-the-Pooh," a collection of stories about a rather stout, somewhat confused bear, was published in England and America. The enchanting tales of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin,…

Buy this book on Amazon

Poor Deer

Buy this book on Amazon

The Man in Black: Stories

From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.

Elly G…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry

The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and meaning. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the worl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)

Ramona doesn't think she's a pest - she knows that she isn't a pest on purpose. So how in the world does Ramona get in trouble? Why does her crush Davy run away whenever Ramona comes near him? And how…

Buy this book on Amazon

What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the mind of an autistic woman, sharing the trials and triumphs of a life before and after diagnosis.

How …

Buy this book on Amazon

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as …

Buy this book on Amazon

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

This volume brims with bookish treasures, all delightfully illustrated by avowed bibliophile, Jane Mount.

• Find your next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books!
• Test your knowledge of the wr…

Buy this book on Amazon

The First State of Being

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, …

Buy this book on Amazon

Manmade Monsters

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.

Following one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the tribe’s homelands in …

Buy this book on Amazon

Ferris

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.

It’s the summer before fifth grade, a…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdric…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the…

Buy this book on Amazon

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home.

“Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We wil…

Buy this book on Amazon

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too …

Buy this book on Amazon

Tree. Table. Book.

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well . . . in a little trouble of late. She’s elderly, sure, but she’s always been on her game, the best …

Buy this book on Amazon

Nothing Else But Miracles

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy siblings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

When 12-year-old Dory Byrne’s pop left New York City’s L…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime

Buy this book on Amazon

Lucky Broken Girl

Based on the author's childhood in the 1960s, a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed.

Ruthie Mizrahi and her fam…

Buy this book on Amazon

Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

Bestselling author and literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to learn to read.

All parents want and expect thei…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight.

Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec …

Buy this book on Amazon

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit. Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe Ch…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Year of Reading Dangerously

Buy this book on Amazon

A Letter to the Luminous Deep (The Sunken Archive, #1)

'An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with…

Buy this book on Amazon

Iron Hearted Violet

Buy this book on Amazon

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Buy this book on Amazon

It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

The First Lady shares her observations on the needs of children and families in the modern, fragmented, fast-paced world and explores diverse ways in which we can improve family and community life. 50…

Buy this book on Amazon

Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult

Similar books (30)