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Books like Winnie-the-Pooh

Loved Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  2. 2

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  3. 3

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J.K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's

    An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.

  4. 4

    Rainbow Valley

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1919 · Children's

    The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley. Anne's children and the children of the widowed minister, Mr. Meredith, becom

  5. 5

    Anne's House of Dreams

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1917 · Children's

    Anne and her new husband Gilbert move into their first home and start a family.

  6. 6

    Anne of Windy Poplars

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1936 · Children's

    Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of

  7. 7

    Pollyanna Grows Up

    Eleanor Hodgman Porter · 1915 · Children's

    Optimism often fades to cynicism as children mature into adults. When we last saw Pollyanna, in an eponymous book, she had become paralyzed after a nasty fall and it looked like she could very likely

  8. 8

    Anne of Ingleside

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1939 · Children's

    Anne is the mother of five and happy with her life in Ingleside until she worries her husband may not love her anymore, so she's ready to make him fall in love with her all over again.

  9. 9

    Chronicles of Avonlea

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1912 · Children's

    Twelve stories of adventure and love set in the home town of Anne of Green Gables.

  10. 10

    The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 · Children's

    A sour orphan brings a hidden garden, and herself, back to life; a quietly healing classic.

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