Litrasaurus Recommends

Litrasaurus loves reading and he has read many, many books. Scroll down to see some books that you might enjoy. Don’t forget that there are Libraries where you can join and borrow books for free! Libraries are also great for browsing which is good if you just would like to see what kind of books might interest you.

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  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

    A story of a boating holiday trip on the river Thames going from Kingston to Oxford. The narrator is travelling with friends Harris and George plus a dog called Montmorency. It provides a wonderful description of the historic places through which they travel including Hampton Court and the site o... Click here to read more

  • The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson

    A mother duck hatched a batch of ducklings but one of the ducklings was different from the others and he was teased for his appearance he eventually left the barnyard miserable from the unkindness and scorn of the others. He was taken in by an old lady but her cat was equally cruel about his appe... Click here to read more

  • The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary

    This is an amazing reference book quite similar to Thesaurus. If you are an aspiring poet I thought you ought to know it! Click here to read more

  • Tom's Midnight Garden

    Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce When Tom Long's brother Peter gets measles, Tom is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen. They live in an upstairs flat of a big house with no garden, only a tiny yard for parking. The elderly and reclusive landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, lives abov... Click here to read more

  • The Sea Egg by Lucy Boston

    The Sea Egg by L.M. Boston (the author of the Green Knowe series) 1967 A story about two young boys (brothers) vacationing on the Cornish coast who discover to their delight and wonder a sea egg from which hatches a triton (or a merman). Their adventures are simple, and though extraordinary th... Click here to read more

  • Anne of green gables by Montgomery

    Anne of green gables by- Montgomery It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. The novel reco... Click here to read more

  • The Nanny goats kid by jeanne Wilson

    Nanny goats kid by Jeanne Willis-  Nanny Goat really wanted a kid – more than anything else in the world, but it wasn't possible. Her sisters told her kids weren't all they were cracked up to be and she should be grateful. Eventually she decided that she would adopt a kid. Now, we all noticed ... Click here to read more

  • Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat

    Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat- The story begins in 1647 when King Charles I has been defeated in the civil war and has fled from London towards the New Forest. Parliamentary soldiers have been sent to search the forest and decide to burn Arnwood, the house of Colonel Beverley, a Cav... Click here to read more

  • Five children and It by Edith Nesbit

    Five children and It by E Nesbit- The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasio... Click here to read more

  • My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell

    My Family and other animals by  Gerald Durrell The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell, age 10 at the start of the saga, of his family, pets and life during a sojourn on the island of Corfu. The book is divided into three sections, ma... Click here to read more

  • The Lion the witch and the wardrobe by C.S.Lewis

    The Lion the witch and the wardrobe by C. S.Lewis In 1940, four siblings – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie – are among many children evacuated from London during World War II to escape the Blitz. They are sent to the countryside to live with professor Digory Kirke. Exploring the profes... Click here to read more

  • The butterfly club by Jacqueline Wilson

    The butterfly club by Jacqueline Wilson Tina is a triplet, but she's always been the odd one out. Her sisters Phil and Maddie are bigger and stronger and better at just about everything. Luckily, they look after teeny-tiny Tina wherever they go - but when the girls start in scary, super-strict... Click here to read more

  • The whale and the snail by Julia Donaldson

    The whale and the snail by Julia Donaldson One tiny snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. But when disas... Click here to read more

  • Watership Down by Richard Adams

    A wonderful tale albeit sad in parts about agroup of rabbits in search of a new home. Characters feature Fiver a young rabbit who has a special gift for telling when things that may happen they may be good or bad! There are many adventures before they find a suitable home and they eventually find... Click here to read more

  • The Robot and the Bluebird by David Lucas

    Literally a heart-warming story! short and sweet. Click here to read more