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Books like The Night Before Christmas

Loved The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore? 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

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  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

    What Katy Did

    Susan Coolidge · 1873 · Children's

    Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin H

  5. 5

    The Hunting of the Snark

    Lewis Carroll · 1876 · Children's

    A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.

  6. 6

    Under the Lilacs

    Louisa May Alcott · 1878 · Children's

    Ben and his trained dog, Sancho, run away from the circus and soon find a warm welcome in a kind community where spirited games are played. Theatricals and imaginative pageantry are all part of the fu

  7. 7

    David Balfour

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · Children's

    From the book:It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, mus

  8. 8

    Robin Hood

    Howard Pyle · 1883 · Children's

    Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

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    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1886 · Children's

    Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when

  10. 10

    Otto of the Silver Hand

    Howard Pyle · 1888 · Children's

    A courageous boy in the Middle Ages brings an end to the feud between two powerful robber barons.

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