Books like The High Hills
By Jill Barklem
For the kid who loves imagining tiny, cozy worlds tucked inside hedgerows, this brings the mice of Brambly Hedge into a chillier, foggier adventure than usual. Autumnal, misty, and quietly tense, with the warmth of Brambly Hedge's world still glowing underneath.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
During hard times in a Florida forest, a girl named Calpurnia sets off with her little dog to find enough fish to feed her hungry family and neighbors, guided by a mysterious tip from the forest's wisest old woman.
A girl in a red cloak walks alone through the woods to visit her ailing grandmother, unaware that a wicked wolf is following close behind with plans of his own.
A little duck who lives with his family on a boat on the Yangtze River is too late to board one evening, leaving him to face a night of adventure alone on the river.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
An aging donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, each cast off by masters who no longer want them, set out together for Bremen-Town to become street musicians and find a robbers' cabin standing in their way.
A small boy is invited to tea at the palace and always asks the same question — may he bring a friend? — and each time, a surprising animal guest shows up beautifully behaved.
A little girl moves to a new town and finds a park named for butterflies — except none live there, so she rallies neighbors to help bring them home.
A bear musician hears a mysterious buzz coming from his double bass but has no time to check it out before his orchestra's bandwagon gets stuck in a hole on the way to the village gala.
After a hunter kills his mother, a young elephant flees to the city, where a kindly old woman takes him in — then he returns to the great forest with his cousins Celeste and Arthur to become King of the Elephants.
A millionaire dog-poet arrives in Paris and is swept up by dazzling characters like Fritz from the Ritz and Pierre Potpurri, but something — namely love — still eludes him.
A half-god king grows so lonely and cruel that he forces his people of Uruk to build an exhausting wall, so the Sun God sends a wild man raised among animals to teach him friendship.
